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Lawrence Hayes
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Critical Care Paramedic (@SECAmb_CCP / Repatriation) Snow, waves and mountains
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🎙️ New Podcast!
💉 IO lines: Power & Pitfalls in the ED
⚡ Fast, reliable access in arrest & shock
🧭 Site matters: Sternum > Humerus > Tibia
⚠️ Labs unreliable, dislodgement common
👉 Listen now: https://wp.me/pdrP8b-5ph
#EMIMCC #FOAMed #MedSky
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Factors in the Initial Resuscitation of Patients With Severe Trauma – The FiiRST-2 Trial

The FiiRST-2 randomised trial compared fibrinogen and prothrombin complex concentrate with plasma in trauma patients needing massive transfusion. No significant benefit was found. Read our St Emlyn’s critical…
Factors in the Initial Resuscitation of Patients With Severe Trauma – The FiiRST-2 Trial
The FiiRST-2 randomised trial compared fibrinogen and prothrombin complex concentrate with plasma in trauma patients needing massive transfusion. No significant benefit was found. Read our St Emlyn’s critical appraisal.
www.stemlynsblog.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Norepinephrine vs epinephrine for cardiac arrest?

"Despite the limited evidence, norepinephrine appears to offer potential advantages over epinephrine in terms of multiple haemodynamic parameters and possible survival"

Read #free & #openaccess on #SJTREM:
The effects of norepinephrine in shockable cardiac arrest, a scoping review - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is considered a major public health issue with an incidence of 67–170 per 100.000 inhabitants in Europe. Sufficient coronary perfusion pressure is a…
sjtrem.biomedcentral.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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The conversation around point-of-care ultrasound in UK EDs has matured

#EMedsky #Medsky #POCUS
UK ED POCUS has matured
From binary thinking to Bayesian reasoning
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May 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Aortic Dissection Management
-Activate consultants
-POCUS:check for tamponade
-Anti-impulse tx:reduce force + frequency of blood striking flap
-Analgesia 1st
-HR: esmolol w/ goal ~ 50 bpm
-BP: clevidipine/nicardipine w/ goal SBP ~ 100 mm Hg

youtube.com/shorts/jKP5e...
#EMIMCC
Aortic Dissection Management #emergencymedicine #criticalcare #resuscitation
YouTube video by EMSwami
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May 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Contaminated Airways and the Three Trajectories

resus.me/contaminated...
May 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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🔥In Case You Missed It🔥
Our NEW WikiGuidelines
A stellar cast of auth🌟rs
54 members , 12 countries
The Third WikiGuidelines
After OM,IE
Guidelines for the Prevention Diagnosis,and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pediatrics & Adults #idsky
#JAMANetworkOpen
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 15, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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A past case at OSH.

Undiff syncope, but saw this ECG and knew I had to do a POCUS echo right away.
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December 3, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Question for learners: what am I looking at here and why is it important?

#MedSky #EMIMCC #PCCM #CritCareSky
December 2, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Everyone in the team has responsibility for sharing mental models. Help your team leader get everyone on the same page. Wise words from the Resus Rats
December 2, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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what is the correct diagnosis for this ECG?

what does this have in common with the computer algorithm in the Hunt for the Red October?

answer: emcrit.org/squirt/ecg2/ #EMIMCC #ECGsky
December 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Need help with lung ultrasound? Here is the BLUE protocol in infographic form (JPEG version). #FOAMed #POCUS @icmteaching @iceman_ex @ICUltrasonica @kyliebaker888 @sonophysio @PARADicmSHIFT #ultrascoundrels Thx @avkwong for the peer review! Download here...
November 19, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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#CriticalLanguage Time to move from ‘sniffing position’ to the more descriptive #flextension which prompts both base-of-neck flexion & atlanto-occipital extension.

@doctimcook.bsky.social @anaesjournal.bsky.social

associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Flextension’: a new term to describe optimal head and neck positioning for airway management
Click on the article title to read more.
associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:42 AM