August 2022

Here are the papers that caught our eye over the last month, many of these will go onto form the topics for our monthly podcasts and topics which you can subscribe to here

Cardiac Arrest

The importance of ventilator settings and respiratory mechanics in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest. Domenico L Grieco. Intensive Care Med. 2022

Ventilatory settings in the initial 72 h and their association with outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients: a preplanned secondary analysis of the targeted hypothermia versus targeted normothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (TTM2) trial. Chiara Robba. Intensive Care Med. 2022

Resuscitative endovascular occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) as a mechanical method for increasing the coronary perfusion pressure in non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Dong-Hyun Jang. Resuscitation. 2022

Neuro

Endovascular thrombectomy versus standard bridging thrombolytic with endovascular thrombectomy within 4·5 h of stroke onset: an open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomised non-inferiority trial. Peter J Mitchell. Lancet. 2022

Other

Managing Temporomandibular Joint Dislocations. Michael Gottlieb. Ann Emerg Med. 2022

Potentially avoidable emergency department transfers from residential aged care facilities for possible post-fall intracranial injury. Igor Tulchinsky. Emerg Med Australas. 2022

We look forward to bringing you some of these papers in future podcasts, in particular you’d like to hear then leave a comment at the bottom of the page