September 2016; papers of the month

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

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🗓️ 1 September 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Here's a look at some of the papers that caught our eye this month.

We cover a paper looking at the the potential benefits of ketofol over propofol for conscious sedation, the role of aggressive blood pressure reduction in haemorrhage stroke and finally a really interesting paper of PE thrombolysis in cardiac arrest.

This month our great sponsors ADPRAC our giving away a £50 iTunes voucher to spend on education/entertainment for you to spend on supporting your work life balance! All you need to do is email through the answer to the following question;

With regards to this September 2016 Papers podcast and The PEA-PETT study, which of the following is correct;

A. The RCT shows a statistically significant benefit in PE thrombolysis intra arrest

B. The paper focussed on peri-arrest thrombolysis

C. The paper was a case series of PE's thrombolysed during arrest

Send your answer via email to [email protected] with your name, answer and iTunes email address, entries close on 15th September and we'll announce the winner in October's podcast.

Enjoy!

References

Propofol or Ketofol for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Emergency Medicine-The POKER Study: A Randomized Double-Blind Clinical Trial. Ferguson I, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2016.

Intensive Blood-Pressure Lowering in Patients with Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage. Qureshi AI, et al. N Engl J Med. 2016

Pulseless electrical activity in pulmonary embolism treated with thrombolysis (from the "PEAPETT" study). Sharifi M. Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Jun 30.

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0:00.0	And out of ten, Rob, how many got it in?
0:10.6	I think you'd one get it in.
0:12.0	Amazingly.
0:13.0	It's been superb so far.
0:14.4	It's been nothing but an enjoyable experience, Simon.
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:17.9	But they also included in intubation.
0:20.6	Oh, I can see that. also included an intubation. Welcome to the recess room podcast.
0:27.3	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:35.1	Right, hello and welcome back to the recess room podcast.
0:39.6	I'm Simon Lang and I'm joined again, unfortunately, by Rob Lenwick.
0:44.3	Hi Simon, good evening and it is great to be back on the recess room.
0:48.2	Thanks, Rob. I hear you've got a hot date this evening, so we're going to try and whittle through these papers.
0:53.5	Fingers crossed, you will be here for the end of it, but we shall wait and see how we get on.
0:58.1	You got the hot date bit wrong, but yes, I do have to unfortunately go somewhere else.
1:03.1	Right, we'll crack on. So we have got three papers. We've got a little bit on conscious sedation.
1:09.0	We've got another bit on intrastribal bleeds and we've also
1:12.7	got a bit on P and thrombolysis. Sounds like a good papers month that we're covering today, Simon.
1:19.3	So let's get started on it. It sounds epic. Well, actually before we start, we've got some
1:24.2	important things to say. So first of all, before we start, needs a big thanks to AdPrak, who are the new sponsors of the podcast. They're also sponsoring
1:32.0	a competition for each month's papers of the month. And last month, our competition winner was
1:38.1	Mark August. We're getting an iBook of ABC Radiology wings through to him via the magic of cyberspace.
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