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The Premature labour page has been updated with information about the utility of antenatal steroids after 34 weeks gestation. Saccone, G, Berghella, V. Antenatal corticosteroids for maturity of term or near term fetuses: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. BMJ 2016;355:i5044.
The Assessment of pneumothorax page has been updated with some additional information about the test performance of US in traumatic PTX using single vs 4 views. Helland, G, Gaspari, R, Licciardo, S, et al. Comparison of Four Views to Single-view Ultrasound Protocols to Identify Clinically Significant Pneumothorax. Academic Emergency Medicine 2016;23(10):1170-75.
The Investigation of PE – imaging page has been updated with information about the test characteristics of CTPA in the detection of RV strain following PE
A segment on application of a Philadelphia collar and a picture of a collar has been added to the Spinal immobilisation page.
The Dysphagia page has been updated with some additional information about achalasia of the oesophagus.
The Breast lumps page has been updated with a segment on gynaecomastia
The Post arrest care page has been updated with a short segment on what should be looked for on a post arrest ECG.
The Ethanol page has been updated with some additional information about Wernicke’s encephalopathy.
The Distal forearm injuries page has been updated with a new segment called Other causes of pain around the wrist and a segment on Madelung deformity.
The Paraphimosis and phimosis page has been updated with some additional information about phimosis.
The MRSA cover page has been updated with information about Red man syndrome following vancomycin administration.
The MRSA cover page has been updated with new dosing and administration information for vancomycin. The previous dosage recommendations were too low.
The Airway management in obesity page has been updated with additional information about drugs that should be dosed based on ideal body weight or total body weight. Links to this information have been added to the Obesity and Paediatric cardiac arrest pages.
The Complications of head trauma page has been updated with additional information about base of skull fractures and the low incidence of complications if no other injury is found on cranial CT.
A segment on the Broselow tape system has been added to the Paediatric cardiac arrest page.
The segment on paediatric weight calculation on the Paediatric cardiac arrest page has had a major revision with multiple additional methods of weight estimation added.
The Prevention of secondary brain injury page has been updated with information about the outcomes from decompressive craniectomy following head trauma. Hutchinson, PJ, Kolias, AG, Timofeev, IS, et al. Trial of Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Intracranial Hypertension. N Engl J Med 2016.
The Stroke page has been updated with a revision of the segment on stroke mimics.
The Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage page has been updated with a segment on seizures following ICH. The page name has also been changed to Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage from its previous title of Intracerebral haemorrhage to differentiate it from traumatic ICH. Please be aware that links to this page from our quizzes may be broken as a … Read more
The Assessment of hypovolaemia page has been updated with a variety of changes indicating the likelihood of fluid responsiveness following the publication of the following article: Bentzer, P, Griesdale, DE, Boyd, J, et al. Will This Hemodynamically Unstable Patient Respond to a Bolus of Intravenous Fluids? JAMA 2016;316(12):1298-309.