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JC: Pre-hospital thoracotomy – what can we learn? St Emlyn’s

St.Emlyn’s – Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Resuscitative thoracotomy remains a controversial procedure in prehospital and emergency care. This month we … JC: Pre-hospital thoracotomy – what can we learn? St Emlyn’s

A 6-year case series of resuscitative thoracotomies performed by a helicopter emergency medical service in a mixed urban and rural area with a comparison of blunt versus penetrating trauma

Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is an intervention that can be performed in the prehospital setting for relieving cardiac tamponade and/or obtaining vascular control of suspected sub-diaphragmatic haemorrhage in patients in traumatic cardiac arrest. The aim of this retrospective case study is to compare the rates of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in RTs performed for bothContinue reading “A 6-year case series of resuscitative thoracotomies performed by a helicopter emergency medical service in a mixed urban and rural area with a comparison of blunt versus penetrating trauma”

The Best Bad News | Humanities | JAMA Neurology | JAMA Network

This essay describes the author’s symptom progression and eventual diagnosis of cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. — Read on jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2787972

RRH: Rural and Remote Health article: 6928 – Trauma care in the tropics: addressing gaps in treating injury in rural and remote Australia

RRH: Rural and Remote Health. Published article number: 6928 – Trauma care in the tropics: addressing gaps in treating injury in rural and remote Australia — Read on http://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/6928

Airway management of COVID-19 patients: A survey on the experience of 1125 physicians in Spain

Airway management of COVID-19 patients: A survey on the experience of 1125 physicians in Spain — Read on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8759623/

Global lessons learned from COVID-19 mass casualty incidents – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Global lessons learned from COVID-19 mass casualty incidents – British Journal of Anaesthesia — Read on http://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(21)00725-X/fulltext

Improving mass casualty planning in low resource settings: Médecins Sans Frontières and International Committee of the Red Cross perspective – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Improving mass casualty planning in low resource settings: Médecins Sans Frontières and International Committee of the Red Cross perspective – British Journal of Anaesthesia — Read on http://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(21)00720-0/fulltext

Higher pre-hospital anaesthesia case volumes result in lower mortality rates: implications for mass casualty care – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Higher pre-hospital anaesthesia case volumes result in lower mortality rates: implications for mass casualty care – British Journal of Anaesthesia — Read on http://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(21)00692-9/fulltext

Provision of pre-hospital medical care for terrorist attacks – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Provision of pre-hospital medical care for terrorist attacks – British Journal of Anaesthesia — Read on http://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(21)00693-0/fulltext

Pre-hospital critical care at major incidents – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Pre-hospital critical care at major incidents – British Journal of Anaesthesia — Read on http://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(21)00635-8/fulltext

Novel Technologies and Techniques for Prehospital Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document

Novel Technologies and Techniques for Prehospital Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/10903127.2021.1992055

Etomidate versus ketamine for emergency endotracheal intubation: a randomized clinical trial

Etomidate versus ketamine for emergency endotracheal intubation: a randomized clinical trial — Read on link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s00134-021-06577-x

The forgotten first responders Los socorristas olvidados – Manhattan Times News

The forgotten first responders Los socorristas olvidados – Manhattan Times News — Read on http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/the-forgotten-first-responders-los-socorristas-olvidados/

Chest pain podcast episode with The Secondary Survey!

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Effect of Use of a Bougie vs Endotracheal Tube With Stylet on Successful Intubation on the First Attempt Among Critically Ill Patients Undergoing Tracheal Intubation: A Randomized Clinical Trial | Anesthesiology | JAMA | JAMA Network

This multicenter randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of use of a tracheal tube introducer vs an endotracheal tube with stylet on successful intubation — Read on jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787158