KEY FEATURES CAB rather than ABC (30:2) 2 min cycles early, high quality, uninterrupted at least 100/min (rather than around) avoid excessive ventilation early defibrillation (higher joules for cardioversion) amiodarone after 3rd shock adrenaline every 4 minutes (every 2nd cycle)…
COATPEGS is an acronym used as a memory aid for the important types of metabolic disturbance
Leon MB et al. Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation for aortic stenosis in patients who cannot undergo surgery. N Engl J Med. 2010 Oct 21;363(17):1597-607 [PMID 20961243] 30% of patients with AS can’t under go surgery c/o co-morbidity TAVI developed, first performed…
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UCEM recognises the meritorious wearing of fighting trousers by Professor Elemental and ZDoggMD.
Questions 18. A previously fit and well 24 year old man sustained an isolated C5-C6 spinal injury following a diving accident resulting in a tetraplegia. The spinal fracture was surgically fixed the following day and the patient was extubated on…
Current ILCOR guidelines advise that capnography is useful during cardiac arrest resuscitation. ETCO2 can be used as a surrogate marker of cardiac output
A young woman is 'talking to voices' and is admitted to the psychiatric unit. Does she have a mental illness, or is something else going on?
A gun shot wound to the head provides the basis for a question-and-answer based discussion on penetrating traumatic brain injury and multi-modal monitoring.
An elderly woman had a fall. On examination she has an unusual constellation of eye movements. What's going on?
A man is about to intubated for coma. What can be learned from a rapid neurological exam that includes assessment of eye movements? Could this be a pseudocoma?
The spinal patient from Microbial Mystery 005 has returned from the operating theatre. Within 15 minutes she is unconscious. What's going on?