Dunn RJ
Bob Dunn The poll results of the most commonly used muscle relaxant demonstrated 65% of respondents preferred suxamethonium over rocuronium. Will be interesting to see if this proportion is the same in a few years time.
Some important features have recently been added to the Emergency Medicine Manual Online site that we wanted to be sure you were aware of. Firstly, we have created an interactive home page designed to help you be aware of recent updates. Whenever possible, each update now has a link to the page with changed content, … Read more
As part of a restructure of the Brain Injury Assessment and Management area, a new page called Assessment of Intracranial Pressure has been added to the Resuscitation section (Link)
A new page called Imaging Features of Raised Intracranial Pressure has been added to the Resuscitation section. (Link)
A new image demonstrating the sites of cranial herniation has been added to the Resuscitation section (Link)
The Computerised Tomography page has been updated with additional information about the appearances of different tissues and their Hounsfield Units. (Link)
Do you know your YLLs from your YLDs and your DALYs? If not, you better check out the updated Outcome Measures page that now contains all of their definitions. (Link)
The Penetrating Trauma to the Trunk page has been updated with additional information regarding the role of CT in abdominal stab wounds. (Link)
The Labour and Delivery page has been updated with information regarding the potential benefits of delayed cord clamping following delivery. (Link)
The relative risk of adverse effects from statins has been updated in the Cardiovascular Risk reduction page. (Link)
The correct measurement units (mIU/mL) have been applied to the various pages where quantitative beta HCG levels have been used.Previously many of the values were quoted in IU/mL, or just IU. Please note that none of the values used in the manual have changed, just the units used have been corrected. Thanks to an astute … Read more
The Intracerebral Haemorrhage page has been updated with information regarding the risk factors for secondary ICH following ischaemic stroke. (Link)
The Thrombolytic Therapy for Stroke page has been updated with recommendations for the administration of tPA in patients taking antiplatelet and anti-coagulant agents. (Link)
The page Thrombolytic Therapy in Stroke has been substantially revised and incorporates the results from the 18 month follow up of patients in the IST3 trial published recently in Lancet Neurology. As is common with tPA stroke trials, much of the relevant data is not easily found (in the study appendix in this case). The results suggest … Read more
The journal watch pages have been updated with the following improvements: The Journal of Trauma and Resucitation have been added to the Emergency Medicine Journal page. (Link) JAMA has been added to the International Journal page (Link) The Australasian Journal of Radiology and the Australian Journal of Rural Health have been added to the Australasian … Read more
The role of clopidogrel and aspirin in stroke prevention has been udated in light of the CHANCE trial published in the NEJM yesterday.(Link)
Following an inquiry from one of our subscribers, a short segment has been added to the section on setting up a ventilator in the Ventilation page in the Resuscitation section. (Link).
Over the past few weeks approximately one hundred images have been improved. Some images have been increased in size, whilst others have had their size reduced without reducing their quality. Many others have been optimised to make it easier to see the items of interest. Increasing the quality of many of the other images will … Read more