ICU Scoring Systems
Scoring systems commonly used in ICU: GCS; TISS; APACHE; SAPS; MPM; POSSUM; EuroSCORE; MELD and SOFA
Meet the Bougie F.UCEMs
Found who are the latest esteemed practitioners of Utopian Medical Ideals to be elevated to the status of Fellow of the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine due to their meritorious suggestions for the best uses of a bougie.
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) is a hypometabolic, immunodepressed state with clinical and biochemical evidence of decreased functioning of the body's organ systems that develops subsequent to an acute injury or illness.
Antimicrobial Dosing and Kill Characteristics
Dosing is different to non-critically ill patients
Different antimicrobials have different kill characteristics, which can be demonstrated on a concentration vs time graph for antibiotic activity
Paediatric Asthma
See RCH Melbourne Guidelines: Acute Asthma Asthma discharge pack Asthma devices photoboard Using a puffer and spacer to treat acute asthma
Cognitive Dispositions to Respond
Reviewed and revised 8 December 2014 OVERVIEW Cognitive Dispositions to Respond (CDRs) or cognitive biases are: “Predictable tendencies, or biases, to react to contextual clues that are largely unconscious and may contribute to flaws in reasoning; a mental state that embraces…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 110
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 110 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q20
List the risk factors for and the clinical and laboratory findings of propofol infusion syndrome.
ILCOR Guideline Changes 2010
ILCOR = International Liaison committee on Resuscitation = conglomerate of resuscitation councils worldwide. Changes in 2010
Fluid bolus therapy
Fluid bolus therapy is widely administered to patients with undifferentiated hypotension and for patients with severe sepsis
Fluid Challenge
The fluid challenge (FC) aims at identifying patients in whom fluid administration improves haemodynamics (known as "fluid responsiveness")
Blinding and Allocation Concealment
Blinding and allocation concealment are used in Randomised control trials (RCTs) to reduce systematic bias