Point of Care Ultrasound Made Easy

Point of Care Ultrasound Made Easy

Point of Care Ultrasound Made Easy is an exciting and innovative book that aims to teach all healthcare professionals how to do simple and clinically relevant ultrasound scanning at the point of care. This book will help... read more

Clinical Synopsis of COVID-19: Evolving and Challenging

Clinical Synopsis of COVID-19: Evolving and Challenging

Coronavirus disease or COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 infection is the latest pandemic that has affected humans globally. The disease has manifested itself in several forms and is now the focus of research worldwide. This book... read more

The Ultimate Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Procedures

The Ultimate Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Procedures

This comprehensive book provides an in-depth examination of a broad range of procedures that benefit from ultrasound guidance in the point-of-care setting. It covers common procedures such as ultrasound-guided central... read more

Critical Care Secrets

Critical Care Secrets

This easy-to-read book uses the popular and trusted Secrets Series question-and-answer format to cover all areas of critical care medicine, focusing on the practical, "in-the-trenches" know-how you need to succeed both in... read more

Educational Initiatives for EEG in the Critical Care Setting

Educational Initiatives for EEG in the Critical Care Setting

It is feasible to teach basic electroencephalography (EEG) to participants in critical care settings from different clinical backgrounds, including physicians and nurses. Brief training programs can enable bedside providers... read more

Point of Care Ultrasound

Point of Care Ultrasound

Compact, hand-carried ultrasound devices are revolutionizing how healthcare providers practice medicine in nearly every specialty. The 2nd Edition of this award-winning text features all-new chapters, a greatly expanded... read more

Do team and task performance improve after training situation awareness?

Do team and task performance improve after training situation awareness?

This intervention study shows that a 2-h education in situation awareness improved parts of team performance in an acute care situation. Team leadership and task management improved in the intervention group, which may indicate... read more

Rapid Sequence Induction: Where Did the Consensus Go?

Rapid Sequence Induction: Where Did the Consensus Go?

The conduct of Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI) in current emergency practice is far removed from the original descriptions of the procedure. Despite this, the principles – rapid delivery of a definitive airway and avoiding... read more

General Practitioners’ Views in Caring for Patients After Sepsis

General Practitioners’ Views in Caring for Patients After Sepsis

General Practitioners provide continuity of care to patients surviving sepsis. Better communication at the ICU-GP interface and training in management of long-term complications of sepsis may be helpful to improve sepsis... read more

Handheld Ultrasound Device Usage and Image Acquisition Ability Among Internal Medicine Trainees

Handheld Ultrasound Device Usage and Image Acquisition Ability Among Internal Medicine Trainees

Personal handheld ultrasound devices (HUDs) without direct supervision did not increase the amount of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) usage or improve interns' acquisition abilities. Interns who reported performing more... read more

Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thrust into a pandemic unlike any other, health professionals today must continually adapt to an ever-changing environment. Protocols change at dizzying rates, while the physical and mental demands of our jobs increase... read more

America Is Running Out of Nurses

America Is Running Out of Nurses

In normal times, there are some 50,000 travelling nurses in the United States. Most are full-time gig workers who move from job to job, usually staying in one place for thirteen weeks. (That length is a holdover from old... read more

Rapid Resilience in the Emergency Department

Rapid Resilience in the Emergency Department

It is the middle of a busy shift when you get the call that multiple casualties are incoming from a large fire. Your team scrambles to respond as the first victim, a 23 year old with 30% TBSA burns rolls in. He’s screaming... read more

Resilience in a Prehospital Setting – A New Focus for Future Research?

Resilience in a Prehospital Setting – A New Focus for Future Research?

Empirical research is of crucial importance to understand, build and support resilient systems and processes, including exploring and developing interventions to improve capacity for adaptive change in a prehospital setting. Handling... read more

Critical Care Beds Are No Use Without Enough Specialist Staff

Critical Care Beds Are No Use Without Enough Specialist Staff

In 2020 there have been announcements of the expansion of critical care capacity across the NHS, while at the same time headlines have detailed stories of hospitals running out of critical care beds. And this week dire warnings... read more

Practical Guidance for Evidence-Based ICU Family Conferences

Practical Guidance for Evidence-Based ICU Family Conferences

Because most critically ill patients lack decision-making capacity, physicians often ask family members to act as surrogates for the patient in discussions about the goals of care. Therefore, clinician-family communication... read more

Real-time AI prediction for major adverse cardiac events in emergency department patients with chest pain

Real-time AI prediction for major adverse cardiac events in emergency department patients with chest pain

An artificial intelligence (AI) real-time prediction model is a promising method for assisting physicians in predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in ED patients with chest pain. Further studies to evaluate the impact... read more