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Cervical spine clearance in the intubated patient

Todd Fraser on 03-03-2012

Its an area that continues to cause controversy in ICU. Protocols from the biggest trauma institutions conflict and seem to change on a yearly basis. How do you clear the cervi...

Helium - useful for more than making your voice sound funny

Todd Fraser on 18-02-2012

Categories: Controversies in ICU

A couple of recent papers have focused on the use of Helium-Oxygen mixture in respiratory failure, particularly in infants on nasal CPAP for bronchiolitis, both papers finding it u...

The Ethical Fabric of ICU

Todd Fraser on 08-02-2012

Categories: Controversies in ICU

Crit-IQ has just released a thought provoking podcast with Sharyn Milnes. Sharyn is a medical ethicist and lecturer for the Deakin University School of Medicine in Victoria, Austr...

Prognosis after cardiac arrest

Todd Fraser on 21-01-2012

Categories: Controversies in ICU

This week sees the release of a review of clinical signs and their predictive significance in cardiac arrest in children (see the current paper in the journal club). This paper at...

Responsibility for end of life decision making

Todd Fraser on 08-01-2012

Categories: Controversies in ICU

Is it just me? It appears that ICU is relied upon more and more to provide end of life decision making support for ward patients. It seems that fewer ward clinicians are comfor...