Chemical restraint or emergency sedation is used for management of acute behavioral emergencies. A drug is considered a restraint when it is used as a restriction to manage the patient's behavior or restrict the patient's freedom of movement and is not a standard treatment or dosage for the patient's condition.
Reviewed and revised 5 August 2015 OVERVIEW Haemostatic resuscitation is a key component of damage control resuscitation and forms the basis of most massive transfusion protocols involves resuscitation with blood components resembling whole blood aims to avoid or ameliorate acute coagulopathy…
"Why don't we wash our hands?" is a SMACCtalk that explores why hand hygiene targets remains such a challenge for healthcare workers.
Magnesium: intracellular cation; hypomagnesaemia = common electrolyte abnormality in ICU
NSTEACS is non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome, and includes non-STEMI and unstable angina
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a devastating condition in terms of personal, societal and wider economic impact
The core physiological monitor used in TBI is ICP monitoring, in addition to standard monitoring used for any critically ill patient
Permissive hypotension is also known as hypotensive resuscitation and low volume resuscitation. The concept remains controversial and is primarily applicable to the penetrating trauma patient
STEMI is a type of acute coronary syndrome that requires emergency reperfusion therapy. Definition and assessment of STEMI is described in Acute Coronary Syndromes
The past few months have seen enthusiastic discussions of the need for a FOAM curriculum among users of free open access med(ical e)ducation. This topic was also in the spotlight at SMACC during the education plenary and the SMACC Q&A…
Toxidromes associated with hyperthermia may be difficult to distinguish: serotonin syndrome; anticholingeric syndrome; sympathomimetic syndrome; neuroleptic malignant syndrome; malignant hyperthermia
Carl Hueter (1838 - 1882) was a German Surgeon. Remembered for his contribution to the Hueter-Volkmann law (1862) with Richard von Volkmann (1830 - 1889)