News! Loads here...lots of your POCUS and many papers / blogs and more to check out.... Some images from the Butterfly! So here is an open and honest thread on the device with hands-on experience. We ran a JC! Click here to see all. And the Twitter moment... Success! A great reminder to us all... Continue Reading →
News! ARDS best practice guidelines came out! The important thing is to check out the grades of evidence behind each recommendation. There is no real re-invention of the wheel, and most of the suggestions are things we are all doing already....hopefully?! Site of the month! We made website of the month with our library! A... Continue Reading →
Still melting in the sun? Watching England apparently playing football for once....need a break from all of this? Then read on and absorb the best POCUS, papers, resources and much more from the FOAMEd world! Buckle up! News! Jeremy Hunt stepped out of his role as UK health secretary..... Dave Lyness does ITU trials April... Continue Reading →
Another edition and loads to talk about, as ever. Let's crack on...lots to click on and catch up on at your leisure. I hope you enjoy it. News! CCR 19 is coming!! Get booking here Is this for real?! At first, I thought this was an April fool...then realised its May! Exciting potential to... Continue Reading →
Have a look at the best of what's out there at the moment in the #FOAMed #FOAMcc #POCUS world!
I thought I would post this out just before the chimes of 2018 begin. Many thanks to David Lyness and our partner site (Propofology), for allowing us to feature these fabulous summaries. Many of these came direct from the crew at The Bottom Line, as they continue to tirelessly bring us many of these studies... 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 →
What was it about?! The aim of this sixth edition meeting is to review recent advances in fluid management, and hemodynamic and organ function monitoring in the critical care setting in a comprehensive manner for intensivists, anaesthesiologists and emergency physicians as well as interested internists and surgeons. However the meeting will deal with any broad... Continue Reading →
We have chosen to feature this topic (as many blogs have), as there are many grey areas associated with treatment of PE. In the main, these are whether to thrombolyse or not and it takes skill on the risk:benefit front to do the right thing. There are many published guidelines and outcome trials to try... Continue Reading →
Here we go again...the latest trawls and highlights of the FOAM world. A big thanks to all concerned...we have credited most, but certainly not forgotten all! Loads to see, so click away, follow and enjoy! Meeting of note Please take some time to go through this case report and answer the questions therein. This promises... Continue Reading →
There's been a small lapse...trips to Italy and all! So here we are back with some snappy #FOAMed #FOAMcc #POCUS finds and the usual trawl of the Twittersphere! In other news! Apparently we hit the dizzy heights of no. 17 amongst the top critical care sites online! Thanks to you all for clicking and... 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 →
Loads of action this week. But here is a pick of some of the best of FOAM / POCUS. Click the pics to go to the linked articles. JW General Papers ARDS and its after effects...beyond the trial info! Frailty...not just mortality!! I think this is very poignant. We quote mortality when putting patients... Continue Reading →
Here are a few trawls of the world of FOAM. Plenty to look at to keep you going. Thanks to LITFL for their usual fab posts, The Bottom Line, EmDOCs and many other sites where a lot of this material came from. As ever, the POCUS world continues to grow, there's a lot of focus... Continue Reading →
Here are a batch of my usual trawls of the FOAM world. I didn't make DasSMACC (gutted), but many of you did and I am sure the themes within here reflect much of what you may have picked up there. I have also procured a lovely little book on POCUS ...you may have seen me... Continue Reading →
Here is the podcast discussion this post. Click the pic and listen along as you read! A sift of FOAMed FOAMcc and POCUS gems. Enjoy! Papers and Stuff! A great article worth looking through, outlining the utilisation of ultrasound in critical care. 10 points why it is a highly useful diagnostic aid to the critical... 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 →
Here is my latest trawl of what I considered to be the best of FOAMed at the moment. This is certainly not exhaustive...you can end up like a child in a sweetshop otherwise! The podcast discussion I had with Jonathan Downham can now be heard by clicking the pic below. This is episode 2 of... Continue Reading →
This is another quick trawl of the best of FOAMed. I am delighted to announce that I have teamed up with Jonathan Downham (@ccpractitioner), to bring you the '2 Jonnys' podcast every fortnight. Check out his brilliant work here: We will discuss the best of FOAMed as an accompanying podcast to the blog. So as they... Continue Reading →
