Category: Summaries

A category to collect all the summaries, so that they can be used in menus and widgets. Please don’t expand this – “Specialties” and “Special Topics” have been created as a custom category sets for the clinical topics.

Pascall

23 October 2015 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients who were admitted to the ICU what litigation claims were made and what was their cost?

FELLOW

In Intensive Care patients undergoing intubation does apneic oxygenation during laryngoscopy increase the lowest arterial oxygen saturation experienced by patients

SPLIT

9 October 2015 Adrian Wong Intensive Care Medicine 5 comments

In critically ill patients, does the use of a balanced crystalloid solution compared to normal saline effect the incidence of acute kidney injury?

HEAT

7 October 2015 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine 4 comments

Does the regular administration of paracetamol to critically ill patients with fever and known or suspected infection, affect the number of ICU-free days?

BLING2

2 October 2015 Duncan Chambler Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In adult ICU patients on beta-lactam antibiotics, does continuous infusion compared to intermittent bolus increase survival?

AVOID

25 September 2015 Celia Bradford Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine 7 comments

In patients with ST-elevation-myocardial infarction (STEMI), without hypoxia, does receiving supplemental oxygen compared with no supplemental oxygen reduce early myocardial injury?

Motov

18 September 2015 David Slessor Emergency Medicine Leave a comment

In patient with acute, moderate to severe pain in the ED, does ketamine compared with morphine, reduce pain scores by an equivalent amount?

REVERT

11 September 2015 Steve Mathieu Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

Does a modified Valsalva technique, incorporating a leg lift procedure, result in improved success in converting a supraventricular tachycardia to sinus rhythm in patients presenting to the Emergency Department?

Idarucizumab for Dabigatran Reversal

4 September 2015 David Slessor Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine One comment

In patients taking dabigatran, who present with serious bleeding or require urgent surgery/intervention is idarucizumab safe and efficacious for the reversal of anticoagulation?

THAPCA-OH

28 August 2015 Duncan Chambler Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In children suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does hypothermia compared to normothermia increase survival with a good neurobehavioural outcome?

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