Survival improvement in Critical neurotrauma and the Triss model. Link to the abstract here. Sudden survival improvement in critical neurotrauma: An exploratory analysis using a stratified statistical process control technique. Søvik et al, Norway. Injury, 2014 Nov.
Dr. Mark Wilson is a neurosurgeon and doctor for the Air Ambulance in the UK. Podcast from Smacc Chicago 2015.
By Bill Knight, Smacc Chicago 2015. Listen to the podcast here.
A look into the future. Interesting talk. This talk is from the October 2015 Neurotrauma symposium at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Until now little evidence supports this recommandation. Read the abstract from this new study here. Hawryluk et al, USA. J Neurotrauma , 2015 Dec. Mean Arterial Blood Pressure Correlates with Neurological Recovery after Human Spinal Cord Injury: Analysis of High Frequency Physiologic Data.
“…treatment with mannitol may increase the likelihood of death when compared to treatment with hypertonic saline.” Read the Cochrane review from 2013: Mannitol for acute traumatic brain injury.
The Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee (SNC) is proud to present and initiate this multidisciplinary meeting place for clinicians and researchers interested in the exciting field of neurotrauma. NCC is to be held in Lund, Sweden in 2017. Date is to be announced. Read more here. We`ll be there !
A colleague wants to hear if anyone has experience with dexmedetomidine in neurocritcal care: adults and children ? We want to open a discussion on the subject and would like your input. Please add you comments below.
“Dry them out”; use glycopyrrolate (no central effects). How to use local anesthetics and more… emcrit.org Listen to the podcast here. EMcrit recommend: Airway Regional Anesthesia for Awake Fiberoptic Intubation, Simmons et al, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 2002. Read the review article here. Fibreoptic vs videolaryngoscopic (C-MAC(®) D-BLADE) nasal awake intubation under local anesthesia. Kramer et al. Anaesthesia. 2015… Continue reading Awake Intubation Lecture from SMACC
Listen to the podcast here. More about TBI and end tidal carbon dioxide/ PaCO2. Normocapnia and hyperventilation. Adjust the ventilation until end tidal CO2 is 4,7, then take an ABG… Use mannitol and “the patients will pee like race horses…”
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