Sep 30
Paediatric critical procedures are rare in the emergency department. Data from one Victorian network showed that 83% of emergency physicians had not performed one in a twelve month period. We also know from audit data that we seem to have a lower first pass success rate (around 78%) when it comes to paediatric intubation. We…
via The Needle… Or The Damage Done — Don’t Forget the Bubbles
A paper in EMJ compares various methods for performing field amputations. I can’t say I ever had to do one myself. However, some of the people I work with have performed amputations on rapidly deteriorating entrapped trauma victims. Most them have relied on the … Continue reading →
case report of apnea after ketamine for DSI by @brian_driver @AnnalsofEM https://t.co/qWeCMxNf2N pic.twitter.com/mXFj2Oosrc
— Seth Trueger (@MDaware) September 29, 2016
A recent review in the BJA on fluid management in burns patients is a trigger to consider some tips for managing the patient having burns debridement. By Dr Andrew Weatherall Why would you do it? Why would you vary your usual practice with a pleasant surgeon(*), predictable procedures and a pleasant theatre environment just built […]
via The Hot Zone – Starter Points for Burns Anaesthesia — Songs or Stories
Andrew and Bruce are back, taking a deep-dive into the neck to discuss a procedure that can strike fear into even the most experienced trauma practitioner and one which has created much debate regarding the “best” method (i.e. needle vs knife). (Go to audio) Bruce is the co-author of a seminal paper on this topic: Emergency surgical…
via ETM Podcast Episode 12 – Bruce Paix & Andrew Perry – Approach to the surgical airway — ETM Course
Avoiding Difficult Intubation Of The Easy Airway https://t.co/puu0FVxP5a via @CWhittenMD
— Fraser MacKinnon (@fraser51) September 19, 2016
Sep 19
How can you build evidence by combining academic activity with pre-hospital critical care practice. The post How to do Prehospital Research appeared first on Intensive Care Network.
Dr Alan Garner has a blog post in the context of a report just published. A catastrophe during a winching operation highlights the physiological challenges we sometimes add in the work we do. The death of a patient during a winching incident in Victoria in 2013 was distressing for everyone concerned. I was asked by the […]
The main priority of the patients and families who suffer critical illness is recover the state of health, relegating to a second flat in the most of the occasions the emotional welfare, even their own privacy and in many cases, accepting that they can´t choose in their "role" of sick persons. Disease threatens two fundamental pillars of human dignity:…
via Respect to the privacy in ICU. By María Rojas — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE
Sep 14
DSI(delayed sequence intubation) and king ketamine ! https://t.co/VWZ1fIuPif
— Minh Le Cong (@ketaminh) September 13, 2016
Emergency Airway Management – by who and how? https://t.co/Izntu6fWu6
— Thomas D (@thomas1973) September 6, 2016
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A couple of months ago and thanks to Enric Benito, I met Gonzalo Brito after have seen a talk in the last Congress of SECPAL. Gonzalo is from Chile, and he is a clinical psychologist clinical that expanded his training in the Compassion and Altruism Research and Education of the…
via Training Compassion — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE
Farmers work long hours, in isolated areas using older machinery. When EMS is called to the scene of an agricultural accident -Expect the worst ( you wont be disappointed). The post When PHARM meets the Farm: Rescue, Resuscitation & Retrieval in the Agrarian Environment appeared first on Intensive Care Network.
Sep 9
Most of us in medicine like the idea that there is a bit of art to what we do. For the paediatric anaesthetist, the induction space is one of the top examples. Andrew Weatherall has a collection of thoughts around distraction at induction time. If you’re the sort of nerd who follows anaesthesia news, you […]
via Different Tablets and the Art of Distraction — Songs or Stories
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