I’d like a drill please
22 May
Like most of you (I presume) I put my first I/O line in a chicken bone on an ATLS course. I put my first real live one in at a cardiac arrest of a 6 week old. In fact technically … Read More »
An appeal to do one thing well
21 May
I’m fairly sceptical on a lot of things that we do in medicine. Perhaps one of the most important things I’ve learned (partly through my Dad’s illness and death) is the importance of symptom control, and more particularly analgesia. We … Read More »
Beware the negative predictive value
20 May
[I also thought giving it the title “guns don’t kill people, people with a poor understanding of Bayes theorem do…”] One of THE most useful thing you can learn when it comes to reading a paper is to understand the … Read More »
Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial Lancet 2010; 376: 23–32
20 May
This should surely be kind of a big deal. Given that it seems to be evidence of something cheap, easy to give that seems to make (albeit) a difference in mortality outcomes without any signs of problems. I had vague … Read More »
Pulmonary embolism as a largely meaningless diagnosis
18 May
[If you want to hear the best thing I’ve heard on this yet then listen to the SMART EM podcast] Perhaps I overstate things in the title, but I’m getting a little bit jaded with all things VTE these days. … Read More »