Early management of acutely ill ward patients
Paul J Frost and Matt P Wise describe how junior doctors can develop a systematic approach to managing patients with acute illness in hospital.
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The BBC’s Panorama programme The Mind Reader: Unlocking My Voice provided important insights into the devastating experience of patients who live in vegetative or minimally conscious states and the...
View ArticleThe importance of the osmolality gap in ethylene glycol intoxication
In patients with very high lactate levels, it is important to calculate the osmolality gap, as ethylene glycol poisoning may falsely elevate lactate levels, write Rimke Oostvogels and colleagues.
View ArticleShould children who have a cardiac arrest be treated with therapeutic...
Barnaby R Scholefield and colleagues address the question of whether children with cardiac arrest should be treated with therapeutic hypothermia.
View ArticlePosterior circulation ischaemic stroke
This review sets out the importance and challenges of recognising and treating posterior circulation stroke, including the key differences between posterior and anterior circulation stroke.
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