Archive for October 2012
Ct or no CT? That is the only question in clearing the cervical spine.
I must admit that my practice has changed in the last few years. I have gone from someone obsessed with minimising CT’s to some that now either clears the cervical spine with say ‘NEXUS’ criteria, or does a scan. This seems to be more and more the trend, given what we can miss with plain…
Read MoreAre we doing harm by giving morphine in chest pain?
Have you ever given morphine to a patient with chest pain? Have you given it before trying nitroglycerin(GTN)? I know I have and the patient wasn’t hypotensive. I consider morphine to be the gold standard of analgesia, however, now that I think about it, it really only masks the pain, doesn’t it? It doesn’t really…
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