Updates

The Stroke prevention in AF page has been updated to better indicate that 4 weeks of anticoagulation is required in patients who have been cardioverted.

The Stroke prevention in AF page has been updated to reflect the very limited role that aspirin now has in stroke prevention.

The Atrial fibrillation arrhythmia management page has been updated to account for the multiple different recommendations from differing national bodies about the safe time to cardiovert AFib after onset. These different recommendations that are mostly of a weak nature indicate that the optimum strategy is unknown. Many have been developed without Emergency Medicine or primary … Read more

The Surgical airway techniques page has been updated with additional information about needle cricothyroidotomy.

The Surgical airway techniques page has been updated with additional information about open cricothyroidotomy.

The Surgical airway techniques page has been updated with additional information about Melker cricothyroidotomy kits.

The Surgical airway techniques page has been updated with additional information about emergency oxygenation devices.

An image of a RAPID O2 emergency oxygenation device has been added to the Surgical airway techniques page.

The Resuscitation teams page has been extensively revised, expanded and updated.

The Difficult intubation equipment page has had a number of minor updates.

The Endotracheal intubation page has had some minor updates.

The Bag mask ventilation page has had some minor updates.

The Basic Life Support page has been updated, reinforcing the lack of proven benefit of mechanical CPR devices in most situations.