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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 feed: LITFL LITFL

RSS feed: Wessex ICS BottomLine Wessex ICS BottomLine

  • Critical Care Evidence Updates – September 2026 October 23, 2026
  • Emergency Evidence Updates – September 2026 October 23, 2026
  • Emergency Evidence Updates – August 2026 September 15, 2026
  • Critical Care Evidence Updates – August 2026 September 15, 2026
  • Emergency Evidence Updates – July 2026 September 15, 2026

RSS feed: Pulmccm Pulmccm

RSS feed: St Emlyns St Emlyns

  • Ep 300 – Decisions Under Pressure: Knowing When to Act in Emergency Care
  • TTL Tip 22: Graded Assertiveness
  • TTL tips 21: Catastrophic Bleeding from the midface
  • JC: IV or IO first in cardiac arrest? St Emlyn’s
  • Ep 299 – Which patients with chest pain need a troponin test?

RSS feed: Resus.me Resus.me

  • Resuscitation Wizardry returns: London, 7–8 December 2026
  • 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?

RSS feed: Emcrit Emcrit

  • EMCrit Wee – Pre-PreCare – Prehospital ECPR with Nat & Bri from Sydney HEMS October 21, 2026
  • A Study in Priors Part 3 October 19, 2026
  • EMCrit 436 – When you RSI Shocked Patients, they Tend to Die (the Hemodynamically Neutral Intubation Part 2) October 18, 2026
  • PulmCrit Hot Take: VASSPR RCT on early vasopressin in sepsis October 15, 2026
  • EMCrit Explosion Wee – F/u with the 2026 ACEP Sedation Guidelines Authors October 11, 2026

RSS feed: Medscape critical care Medscape critical care

  • Negative Autoinflammatory Panel? Why IL-1 Gets Overlooked
  • Medscape Female Physician Wealth & Debt Report 2026
  • SERMs: Choosing Among Five Estrogen Receptor Modulators
  • CD20xCD3 Bispecifics: Converging Efficacy, Diverging Paths
  • AANEM 2026: New Treatments and Open Questions in MG

RSS feed: Thinking Critical Care 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 feed: Critical Care Now Critical Care Now

RSS feed: Critical Care Northampton Critical Care Northampton

  • Weekly FOAM Grabs – October ’26
  • Weekly FOAM Grabs – Sept ’26 week 4!
  • September’s best Papers is out!
  • CCN-BOB – Feb 2026 (1)
  • I’ve been Slimed! – Ultrasound Insights

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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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