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Journal Club : NIV to liberate patients chronic respiratory failure from ventilators

Todd Fraser on 05-07-2011

Rationale: The interest of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) as an early weaning/extubation technique from mechanical ventilation remains controversial. Objectives: To investigate...

Journal Club : Early versus late initiation of TPN in critically ill patients

Todd Fraser on 01-07-2011

Categories: Journal Club

The place of TPN is now reasonably well established in ICU patients - there is little evidence that it can be endorsed when there is a working alimentary tract. However, the timin...

Measuring lung compliance

Todd Fraser on 27-06-2011

Categories: Controversies in ICU

This weeks blog topic was sent in by Ben Tang, who asks : " Just wondering if anyone could help me with a question on compliance? How do we assess lung compliance at the bedside...

Cause for concern - is clinical brainstem testing sufficiently specific?

Todd Fraser on 12-06-2011

Categories: Controversies in ICU

Ben Moran sent me a horrifying article published in Critical Care Medicine this month. The paper, by Webb and Samuels, describe a case of a 55 year old man who suffered a sudden c...

Journal Club : FEAST - a stunning new work in fluid resuscitation

Todd Fraser on 02-06-2011

Categories: Journal Club

This is a landmark paper in medicine, and is a remarkable achievement both in its scale and its contribution to medical knowledge. It is a pragmatic, randomised, controlled tr...