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Transfusion in upper GI haemorrhage

VAP treatment – go short or long with antibiotics?

Colloids best in hypovolaemic shock?

  • January 22, 2014


colloids

The CRISTAL study, out last month shows a potential mortality benefit for colloids in hypovolaemic shock. Will you stop your ban on fluids?

FOAMcc search (ICM/EM sites)

RSS LITFL

  • History of Spinal Needles May 18, 2026
  • Free Relaxation Resources May 7, 2026
  • Introducing CLARA May 7, 2026
  • Presence, Purpose, and Recovery May 4, 2026
  • Practical Longevity Supplement Guide April 30, 2026

RSS Wessex ICS BottomLine

  • LIBERATE-D – Conservative Dialysis Strategy May 1, 2026
  • BigPAK-2 – preventive care strategy to reduce acute kidney injury after major surgery March 28, 2026
  • ACTiVE – Automated Closed-Loop Ventilation vs Protocolized Conventional Ventilation March 28, 2026
  • Critical Care Evidence Updates – February 2026 March 13, 2026
  • Emergency Evidence Updates – February 2026 March 13, 2026

RSS Pulmccm

RSS St Emlyns

  • TTL Tip 11: Be the TTL your prehospital teams want to hand over to
  • The three-body problem and ED clinical staffing
  • Opioid overdoses: should we bring peer support workers into ED?
  • IncrEMentuM 2026 – Inspirational Emergency Medicine in Murcia
  • RCEM Annual Conference 2026 – Day 3

RSS Resus.me

  • Contaminated Airways and the Three Trajectories
  • Resuscitation Wizardry: Making Things Happen Two Day Event
  • Resuscitation Concepts: Critical Care in the Emergency Department – ONE DAY EVENT
  • How far can exponential spread of coronavirus go?
  • Blow Them Away in Resus

RSS Emcrit

  • EMCrit Wee – How I Fracked Up at Incrementum 2026 May 19, 2026
  • EMCrit 425 – Sort of the Airway Triage Debate May 14, 2026
  • EMCrit Wee – 2026 PE Update F/u with Josh Farkas & Justin Morgenstern May 8, 2026
  • EMCrit 424 – 2026 Crashing PE Update May 2, 2026
  • EMCrit 423 – Hyperbaric Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning? April 17, 2026

RSS Medscape critical care

  • Congo's Ebola Responders Decry Lack Of Medicine, Masks, Motorbikes
  • CUVAF: Objective Biomarker for Myopia Screening
  • Women Show Longer Door-to-Needle Time for Stroke Than Men
  • Ebola Likely Circulating in Congo for Two Months, Outbreak to Grow, WHO Says
  • US Doctor in Contact With Ebola Patient Heading to Czech Hospital From Uganda

RSS Thinking Critical Care

  • Time to Question the Primordiality of Oxygen??? A teaser of Dr. Paul Marino at #HR2026.
  • Surviving the Surviving Sepsis 2026 Guidelines: Understanding MAP with Rory, Phil and the one and only Korbin. #FOAMed #SSG #Sepsis #MAP
  • HR2026 – Fondations Physiologiques au Chevet: Choc et de Insuffisance Respiratoire, Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal 17-18 Septembre 2026.
  • Critical Care Physician Needed!
  • FOUNDATIONS REIMAGINED – Physiology at the BEDSIDE! #HR26 September 16-19, 2026!

RSS Critical Care Now

RSS Critical Care Northampton

  • CCN-BOB – Feb 2026 (1)
  • I’ve been Slimed! – Ultrasound Insights
  • Best #FOAMed Finds Jan 2026!
  • SIGH35 vs EEOT: Fluid Responsiveness in ICU Patients
  • The POCUS Textbook – Dr Larry Istrail

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This site is largely a collection of links to guidelines, decent papers, and others' good work. Suggest more - email me, or leave a comment on this page.
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Justin Mandeville
Consultant intensivist/anaesthetist
Bucks Hospitals, UK

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