How good is BIS? Does it prevent awareness?
OK, for those of you who are not practicing Anaesthetics this might be a bit boring, but it is an intriguing look at the way...
2011 Guidelines : what’s new in Acute Coronary Syndromes
This is a summary of the new ACS guidelines – hot off the press. Heart, Lung and Circulation has produced the 2011 Addendum to the...
Medical mythology: Antibiotics for C-section – when?
This clinical question comes from Dr Tim (KI Docs). He got talking to some specialist O&G and Anaesthesia docs about the timing of prophylactic ABs...
Managing Traumatic bleeding: how can we apply the evidence in smaller hospitals?
OK after Clinical Case 031 I was inspired to go out and slog through the literature and try to discover what is “best practice” for traumatic...
Clinical Case 031: Big transfusion, Little Hospital = big trouble
I have been working on a post dealing with massive transfusion – Broome style – for a while now. So last week we landed in...