Author Archives: ketaminh

JellyBean 052 with Marietjie “MJ” Slabbert and Aeromedicine — LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F292284775&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false Punching above your weight and above the clouds. In the first post bare knuckle fight interview for the Jellybean Podcast we talk to the victor, nay, the newly crowned Heavyweight Champion of South African Aeromedicine. She was, of course, graceful in her moment of triumph. It’s @mjslabbert Dr Slabbert went into the ring with a…Continue reading “JellyBean 052 with Marietjie “MJ” Slabbert and Aeromedicine — LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog”

#badEM16: Charmaine Cunningham – The gamble: do I pay or do I stay — #badEM

Selling assets in order to pay for care so that your child has a chance of survival should not be a decision that a parent is required to make, and yet often it is…. I’m Charmaine and I’m passionate about access to care. For #badEM16 I combined some of my interests, including the system, how… viaContinue reading “#badEM16: Charmaine Cunningham – The gamble: do I pay or do I stay — #badEM”

Recommended practice for out-of-hospital emergency anaesthesia in adults: Statement from the Out-of-Hospital Emergency Anaesthesia Working Group of the Emergency Medicine Research Group of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

@ketaminh prehospital #anesthesia :european journal recommendations #airway https://t.co/FKM74nfju8 — Joachim Unger (@xaqu1n) November 13, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Unexpected at 24,000 Feet — The Collective

Contributors Dr Toby Shipway and Flight Nurse Jodie Martin return with a little about something that would make any retrievalist sweat – delivering babies in the air. A call came into the Logistics Coordination centre from a nurse in a remote health centre, worried about new contractions in a pregnant woman who was 31 weeksContinue reading “Unexpected at 24,000 Feet — The Collective”

What Will You Do With This Tiny Person? — Songs or Stories

Not that long ago, Dr Andrew Weatherall had the job of facilitating a discussion about neonatal anaesthesia at the annual Society of Paediatric Anaesthetists of New Zealand and Australia conference. About 15 people were there and this is a best effort at trying to collate the things those clever people said. Let’s start with the […]Continue reading “What Will You Do With This Tiny Person? — Songs or Stories”

9. Dispersion — patientsafe

‘Over the last few years NSW Health have received numerous reports of death and morbidity from central line related air emboli’. This statement in itself is a ‘call to action’. ‘Why don’t we know about this already, how is it happening, what’s already been done and what can we do to stop this’. (see here) […]Continue reading “9. Dispersion — patientsafe”