1 Year in Review. 2018 Guidelines you must know.

So 2018 is at the end and we give, as every year, a look back to literature and articles of this finishing year.

This is the first step of 1 YEAR IN REVIEW the classical MEDEST appointment with all that matter in emergency medicine literature.

So let’s start with Guidelines but first I want to cite an important point of view about Clinical practice Guidelines and they future development:

“Clinical practice guidelines will remain an important part of medicine. Trustworthy guidelines not only contain an important review and assessment of the medical literature but establish norms of practice. Ensuring that guidelines are up-to-date and that the development process minimizes the risk of bias are critical to their validity. Reconciling the differences in major guidelines is an important unresolved challenge.”

Paul G. Shekelle, MD, PhD. Clinical Practice Guidelines What’s Next?

And now here it is, divided by topics, the most important new 2018 Guidelines. Click on the link to read more.

• Airway management

Guidelines for the management of tracheal intubation in critically ill adults

Guidelines for the management of tracheal intubation in critically ill adults PP presentation

• Trauma

Management of severe traumatic brain injury (first 24 hours)

Spinal Motion Restriction in the Trauma Patient –A Joint Position Statement

Guidelines for Prehospital Fluid Resuscitation in the Injured Patient

Re-thinking resuscitation: leaving blood pressure cosmetics behind and moving forward to permissive hypotension and a tissue perfusion-based approach

• Cardiac

2018 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline on the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Bradycardia and Cardiac Conduction Delay

•  Stroke

2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients with acute ischemic stroke.A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American HeartAssociation/American Stroke Association

• Others

Health Professions Council of South Africa. Clinical Practice Guidelines