Changes in ICU Mortality
Overall, ICU mortality continues to improve but there are reasons why mortality improvement is not faster
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Drowning and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Today’s paper is from the lovely EM residencies affiliated with Harvard. They wrote up a case report of a patient that was injured while boating, resulting in drowning. First, let’s get one thing clear. There is no clinical entity known…
better late than never…
The case. An obese 86 year old female is bought to ED by private car with a 5-6 day history of progressive dyspnoea and fevers. She is promptly rushed into the resus bay in extremis with cyanosis & poor respiratory…