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Transatlantic Intensive Care

October 30, 2012by expensivecare 1 Comment

When it comes to comparing patient outcomes in sepsis, we antipodeans often smugly sit back and comment that  “we don’t need no surviving sepsis campaign” (apologies to Pink Floyd) because […]

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Is it the destination or the journey?

October 12, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

I want to discuss 3 slightly related studies today.  All are early release article from Critical Care, but that’s not all they have in common.  They all have to do […]

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September 27, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

I love it when a controversy pops up in the intensive care literature.  Especially when it doesn’t involve steroids.  My favourite paper of last year was definitely FEAST because I […]

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EEG is better then SSEP for prognostication at 24 hours in patients cooled post cardiac arrest

September 25, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

Interesting study from the Netherlands in this months CCM.  Patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest (regardless of etiology or location) had continuous electroencephalogram (EEG) and daily somatosensory evoked […]

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Intensivists achieve better outcomes for less money. Surprise!

September 24, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

I can’t even begin to fathom the health system in the USA. But one thing I do know is that in many hospitals critically ill patients in ICU aren’t looked […]

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