Vlak MH, Algra A, Brandenburg R, Rinkel GJ. Prevalence of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, with emphasis on sex, age, comorbidity, country, and time period: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Neurology 2011 Jul.;10(7):626–636. PMID 2164128 With all the talk of how we … Read More »
Perry JJ, Stiell IG et al Sensitivity of computed tomography performed within six hours of onset of headache for diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage: prospective cohort study. BMJ 2011 Jul.;343(jul18 1):d4277–d4277. PMCID 21768192 This paper has rightly received a lot of attention … Read More »
I started med school at the age of 18. I was a sheltered child of an adult. Most people I knew at that age were. It’s not their fault it’s more that we are a society capable of producing legally … Read More »
Aujesky D et al. Outpatient versus inpatient treatment for patients with acute pulmonary embolism: an international, open-label, randomised, non-inferiority trial. Lancet 2011 Jul.;378(9785):41–48. PMID 21703676 Most of you are probably treating PEs as out patients, we’ve been doing it for years … Read More »
Moore EE et al Defining the Limits of Resuscitative Emergency Department Thoracotomy: A Contemporary Western Trauma Association Perspective. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 2011 Feb.;70(2):334–339. PMID 21307731 We don’t get much penetrating trauma in Ireland (though it’s … Read More »