A final happy Christmas to you all! This episode features loads of POCUS images, many of which you have kindly shared over Twitter. Thanks to all concerned and I have acknowledged you where I can. There is also a lot on flu, ARDS, OOHCA, less is more in sepsis and our usual run of infographics... Continue Reading →
I wanted to present a graphical snapshot of this meeting for you all. What you see first of all are my graphics, produced as I followed the meeting on Twitter and interacted with a lot of you who were kind enough to share things with us all. Following mine, you will see Aoife's, then the... Continue Reading →
Here we go again! More trawling and mouse clicking for you all. Here are links and chats about all I see as the best of the bunch this week out there where access is free and open! To come... First ED post from Dan Weston Part 3 of the Fluid series with Manu Malbrain New... Continue Reading →
By: Dr Richard Pertwee (Clinical ICU Fellow) Edited by: Dr Jonny Wilkinson Obesity The obvious pun comes...Obesity is a ‘big’ problem! In the UK, the proportion of people who are obese is steadily increasing. In 2010, the UK National Audit Office found that 26% of both men and women were obese (BMI >30). 30-40 =... Continue Reading →
Here's another for you! Lot's going on as ever...and this is always very hard to put together without getting too carried away! Podcast 3 from the Two Jonnys coming your way this Thursday too...looking forward to that. Thanks also to Rob MacSweeny, as ever, for his hard work trawling about and putting together the always... Continue Reading →
Another really busy week with various meetings going on around the world. This is a selection offering you an insight into what has been going on out there recently, and do remember that many of the Twitter shots contain clickable links! Lots of POCUS, as well as lots of new papers and reviews from Critical... Continue Reading →
A bad week on ICU! Pericardial tamponades, many of the sickest patients I have seen for quite some time, tight aortic valves and a lot of POCUS!!! So..a lot going on this week, but I have been trawling and hope this gives you an idea of what's been going on? Make sure the kids are... Continue Reading →
We are going to try to produce regular sections on the best of FOAMed. Here's the first! Sit down with a coffee and enjoy....more to come! Great Papers Fits or frozen?! The Bottom Line Crew (Adrian Wong), debate the HYBERNATUS Study looking at whether we should cool status patients to improve outcome. Thanks again team see... Continue Reading →
Click here to read more, courtesy of critical care. Basically We know that hypothermia leads to poor outcomes, perhaps not in cardiac arrest situations where neuroprotection is the key, granted and perhaps a few other exceptional circumstances. There is evidence that it leads to worse outcome in sepsis which is interesting. There have been many... Continue Reading →
