The Resus Room

December brings us to the final Papers of the Month for 2025 and we're finishing the year with three studies that challenge assumptions across critical care and resuscitation! This time questioning th...

1 Dec 202530min

Whether you're just stepping into your first cardiac arrest or you've been running them since the days of paddles, this one's for you. The 2025 resuscitation guidelines have landed after further colla...

10 Nov 202556min

This month we've got four cracking UK-led studies that really speak to how pre-hospital and emergency medicine continue to evolve, not just in the kit and skills we use, but in how we think about the ...

1 Nov 202533min

How, when and why to make the call… The pre-alert is one of the most powerful and sometimes most painful parts of emergency care. It can feel like the Spanish Inquisition, trigger tension between pre-...

20 Okt 202552min

This month we've got three really interesting papers that shine a light on aspects of cardiac arrest management that many of us will recognise from clinical practice. First up, we look at the feasibil...

1 Okt 202529min

a focus on its acute presentations and the care we can deliver to improve outcomes for our patients. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a lifelong inherited blood disorder that affects over 15,000 people in...

15 Sep 202551min

Welcome back to September's Papers of the Month. We've got three cracking studies for you this time, each tackling really core questions in pre-hospital and emergency care and each giving us plenty to...

1 Sep 202534min

Welcome back! First up a paper to challenge the way we think about rhythm recognition in cardiac arrest to start with, looking at the rate of VF identified on echo but not on the defibrillator. We hav...

1 Aug 202534min