Dunn RJ
Bob Dunn Some additional information about the risk of Hep B transmission has been added to the Body fluid exposure page.
The Links page has been updated with additional public health links to quit smoking, alcohol and drug websites.
3 images of US guided vascular access have been added to the Difficult intravenous access page.
The Ultrasonography page has been updated, included information about different US probe types.
The Endotracheal intubation page has been updated with information about pre-intubation checklists.
Information about Higgin’s I squared test has been added to the Comparison of variables between two groups page.
Additional information about Cochrane’s Q test has been added to the Comparison of variables between two groups page.
The Management of pelvic trauma page has been updated with a segment on how to apply a SAM pelvic sling.
The Assessment of abdominal trauma page has been updated with a new segment on how to perform a FAST scan.
The Assessment of abdominal trauma page has been updated with some additional information about the role of the FAST scan.
The Management of fractures and dislocations page has been updated with additional information about haemorrhage control from an extremity.
The Secondary headaches page has been updated with additional information about the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, especially neurosurgical techniques of treatment.
The Aging page has been updated with a section outlining the key tasks in the assessment of the elderly.
The Medical literature page has been updated with information about how stopping trials early due to a positive treatment effect usually overestimates the treatment effect.
The Thrombolytic therapy in stroke page has been updated with the removal of lacunar stroke from the list of stroke types unlikely to benefit from tPA following the publication of an IST-3 subgroup analysis.
Some additional information about the role of tPA in patients selected without advanced imaging (e.g. CT perfusion, DWI MRI) between 3-4.5 hours has been added to the Thrombolytic therapy in stroke page following the BMJ article published today that does not support the evidence for the use of tPA for this time window.
A new page called Drug resistant organisms has been created from the old Drug resistant Staph Aureus page and a short section on VRE has been added to it.
One of our subscribers, Farzad Jazayeri, has come up with this tip on how to enlarge the main text when using Version 1 without the side bar disappearing and the grey guide at the bottom of the page enlarging.
A new page called Hepatic ultrasound has been added to the Liver disease section in Abdominal disorders.