Category Archives: FOAMEd

The use of transcranial ultrasound and clinical assessment to diagnose ischaemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion in remote and rural areas

The use of transcranial ultrasound and clinical assessment to diagnose ischaemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion in remote and rural areas — Read on journals.plos.org/plosone/article

Is Prehospital Ketamine Associated With a Change in the Prognosis of PTSD? | Military Medicine | Oxford Academic

ABSTRACTIntroduction. Ketamine is an alternative to opioids for prehospital analgesia following serious combat injury. Limited research has examined prehospital — Read on academic.oup.com/milmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/milmed/usac014/6519201

Prehospital Care: An International Comparison of Independently Developed Training Courses – Air Medical Journal

Prehospital Care: An International Comparison of Independently Developed Training Courses – Air Medical Journal — Read on http://www.airmedicaljournal.com/article/S1067-991X(21)00237-6/fulltext

A review of the safety and efficacy of inhaled methoxyflurane as an analgesic for outpatient procedures – British Journal of Anaesthesia

A review of the safety and efficacy of inhaled methoxyflurane as an analgesic for outpatient procedures – British Journal of Anaesthesia — Read on http://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(18)30039-4/fulltext

PHARM podcast Episode 240 Experiences of Health Workers in COVID-19 Pandemic with Professor Marie Bismark

For directors working in the health sector, there’s an important chapter on leading through crisis in my new book “Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic: In Their Own Words”. #AGS2022 #InTheirOwnWords https://t.co/iwZCZu9096 — Prof Marie Bismark FAICD (@mbismark) March 2, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome: A 6‐year audit of adult presentations to an urban district hospital – Rotella – – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome: A 6‐year audit of adult presentations to an urban district hospital – Rotella – – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library — Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1742-6723.13944

Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation: double blind, randomised placebo controlled trial | The BMJ

Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation: double blind, randomised placebo controlled trial | The BMJ — Read on http://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-067194

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”

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