Mystery of moribund marram

Resuscitation of the moribund asthmatic.

Management of the moribund carbon monoxide victim.

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is the commonest single cause of fatal poisoning in the U.K. (Broome & Pearson, 1988). The clinical features are numerous and include headache, fatigue, dizziness, confusion, memory loss, paraesthesia, chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea, and diarrhoea as well as coma, convulsions and death. Without adequate treatment many patients develop neuropsychiatric sequelae...

Death rate mystery

Knowing the true rate of death from covid-19 will help us fight the pandemic, but for the moment it eludes us, reports Michael Le Page.  

Resuscitation of the moribund asthmatic W . D . RIDING

THE asthmatic attack which fails to respond to adrenaline and aminophylline will, in most cases, settle with treatment which includes high doses of corticosteroids (above 60 mg of prednisolone) and antibiotics. Occasionally, in spite of these measures, remission is delayed, the condition of the patient deteriorates and, when the attack is prolonged, death may occur (Witts, 1936). Autopsy in suc...

Melanoma mystery

Biological variability has confounded efforts to confirm the role of PREX2 mutations in melanoma.