You can overdo heat stroke treatment
Heat stroke can kill. This isn’t debatable. And mortality is linked to duration of hyperthermia. Thus, prehospital treatment of heat stroke improves mortality.
CCC Update 013
The latest update of major additions and revisions to the Critical Care Compendium. Topics featured include: driving pressure, PEA, sepsis definitions, sepsis biomarkers, procalcitonin, as well as open chest and delayed sternal closure.
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome of pathologic immune activation characterized by clinical signs and symptoms of extreme inflammation
Ultrasound Case 042
A 70 year old man presented with acute urinary retention. Insertion is difficult and ultrasound is used to ensure the catheter reaches the bladder before it is inflated.
Venom extraction kits. Seriously, just don’t.
Clinicians mostly know about venom extractors and why they don’t work, this hasn’t trickled down to the lay public unfortunately.
CCC Update 012
The 12th update to the Critical Care Compendium, with ECMO, cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery, gas embolism, apnoeic oxygenation, & more!
Ultrasound Case 041
An 83 year old woman with sepsis and acute kidney injury is being managed in your resuscitation area. A urinary catheter has been placed to monitor urine output. After an hour there is no urinary output at all.
A novel prevention for acute mountain sickness
Should artificial pneumoperitoneum should be considered for AMS prevention in persons who must ascend to high altitude and begin work without rest and acclimation.
CCC Update 011
Here is the eleventh update to the Critical Care Compendium, your LITFL guide to the core and not-so-core knowledge base required of a critical care physician.
LITFL Review 355
Welcome to the 355th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care.
Necessity is the mother of tourniquet invention
...a pair of chopsticks as an improvised tourniquet windlass worked better than pencils or craft sticks.
CCC Update 010
Checkout the latest round up of new entries and major revisions in LITFL's Critical Care Compendium. Enjoy!