Posts from the ‘airway’ Category

Apr 2

Dr Richard Levitan’s Famous Cadaver Airway course comes to Oz!

Dr Levitan delivering a lecture at RFDS Airway skills workshop 2009

 

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Apr 2

Training for the difficult airway – real life or simulation?

Karel explains need in prehospital medicine to be flexible

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  • Emergency Medicine Update May 2013 May 17, 2013
    Yosef Leibman's Emergency Medicine Update May 2013 is here!The post Emergency Medicine Update May 2013 appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog.
    Chris Nickson
  • GoogleFOAM May 17, 2013
    GoogleFOAM is a boon to 'just in time' learning — and for teachers and FOAM creators too. Check it out!The post GoogleFOAM appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog.
    Chris Nickson
  • Emergency Musical Interlude XLII May 17, 2013
    Barone Rocks presents Manik, M.D.M.C and the Medical Music project with the awesome Anti-Arrhythmic Sickness Video...The post Emergency Musical Interlude XLII appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog.
    Mike Cadogan

• RESUS.ME

  • RSI haemodynamics in the field May 18, 2013
    The noxious stimulus of laryngoscopy & tracheal intubation can precipitate hypertension, tachycardia, and intracranial pressure elevation, risking exacerbation of brain injury or haemorrhage. Physicians from an English Helicopter Emergency Medical Service examined the response of heart rate and blood pressure to prehospital rapid sequence intubation (RSI […]
    Cliff
  • Awake intubation May 14, 2013
    I had some fun today getting intubated. We used the Ambu aScope 2 and the Greater Sydney Area HEMS equipment and approach to airway management. I didn’t receive an antisialogogue or any analgesia or sedation. The big learning point for me was how hard it was to anaesthetise the posterior part of my nasal cavity [...]
    Cliff
  • Difficult intubation on ICU May 11, 2013
    A score to predict difficulty of intubation in ICU patients underwent derivation and validation in French ICUs. The main predictors included Mallampati score III or IV, obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome, reduced mobility of cervical spine, limited mouth opening, severe hypoxia, coma, and where the operator was a nonanesthesiologist. The striking thing is the […]
    Cliff

• The blunt dissection

  • top of the ladder… May 18, 2013
    The case. It’s 9 o’clock at night. You are asked to review a 45 year old male on the ward for uncontrolled pain. He has a history of Crohn’s disease and is 24 hours post-laparotomy for small bowel resection & stoma formation. He is nil by mouth… His current pain regime includes; Paracetamol 1g q6h [...]
    Christopher Partyka
  • a test of metal… May 11, 2013
      The case. 64 year old female who is day 1 post elective left total-knee replacement. She has a past medical history of osteoarthritis, bipolar disorder and depression for which she takes quetiapine, lithium and paracetamol. You are asked to see her on the ward for optimization of her pain management with a concern that she “just [...]
    Christopher Partyka
  • Quick Case #01 April 27, 2013
    A 24 year old male rugby player presents to your ED with a severely painful, swollen left hand which occurred during a tackle and subsequent ruck. These are his x-rays….    What about the lateral ?? What's going on here ?? Carpometacarpal Dislocation The Anatomy... The carpometacarpal (CMC) joints form the base of the metacarpal [...]
    Christopher Partyka