Editor’s Note: Last Wednesday was like the night before Christmas for the BoringEM team. We had trouble getting to sleep as we awaited the Thursday release of the 2015 ILCOR / AHA / Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC)! We spent the prior week planning for how…Continue reading “The ‘Top Five Changes’ Project: 2015 AHA guidelines on CPR + ECC update infographic series”
Category Archives: Emergency medicine and critical care
Surviving Sedation Guidelines presentation at Rural medicine Australia 2015
TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS – FOAMED!
Tear down these walls Support open medical knowledge and open education #FOAMed #txfm https://t.co/eqoq0NFENR pic.twitter.com/qZQWnnLmIy — Daniel Cabrera (@cabreraERDR) October 19, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Phenobarbital monotherapy for alcohol withdrawal: Simplicity and power
Source: Phenobarbital monotherapy for alcohol withdrawal: Simplicity and power
FELLOW trial (is this the end of apnoeic oxygenation?)- The Bottom Line
Celia Bradford reviews the FELLOW trial of Apneic Oxygenation for Intubation in ICU patients and described the strengths, weaknesses and the bottom line Source: FELLOW trial (is this the end of apnoeic oxygenation?)- The Bottom Line
Paediatric Pain and Sedation – Tips to Change Your Practice from #EuSEM15
Blog post version of Natalie May’s talk from #EuSEM15 on paediatric pain and sedation in the emergency department with tips to change your practice. Source: Paediatric Pain and Sedation – Tips to Change Your Practice from #EuSEM15
Ketamine
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening by Salvador Dalí, 1944
Things We Say We Love But Never Do
Source: Things We Say We Love But Never Do
Opioids – Pain, Compassion, Addiction, Malingering
Opioids have been used for millennia for the relief of pain and suffering, however, their history is also one of abuse and addiction. Source: Opioids – Pain, Compassion, Addiction, Malingering
Fluids and Kids: What Now?
Kath Maitland, the author of the FEAST study, talks about where we go now with fluids in kids, following FEAST Source: Fluids and Kids: What Now?
The Agitated Patient
I don’t know if this has happened to you yet. It happened to me on my first shift as an intern. I hadn’t laid hand on a stethoscope in months. I had just unloaded the cardboard boxes from my rental truck into my new place. As I was settling in to my first few patientContinue reading “The Agitated Patient”
Resuscitative Hysterotomy by Dr Rob Bryant
Resuscitative Hysterotomy from Rob Bryant on Vimeo.
Triage Thyself by Liz Crowe
Episode 35 – The Trachea
Source: Episode 35 – The Trachea
The ridiculous pricing of pharmaceuticals in the U.S.
Source: The ridiculous pricing of pharmaceuticals in the U.S.
Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine - THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 