Author Archives: ketaminh

#smaccFORCE summary: Prehospital Emergency Medicine Workshop — #badEM

Tweet #smaccFORCE – You don’t have to the best – just do your best! I was lucky enough to attend the #smaccFORCE at the Dublin Social Media and Critical Care conference. We go to conferences to learn more about what is new, what is old, what is still practiced and what should no longer be practiced.…Continue reading “#smaccFORCE summary: Prehospital Emergency Medicine Workshop — #badEM”

A swimming pool in the ICU? By Wes Ely — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE

Published in The Wall Street Journal on June 17th, 2016“A swimming pool in the ICU? You must be nuts.”The nurse’s voice was almost lost amid the whooshing ventilator and infusion pumps. Five days earlier, we had admitted Bennie, a Vietnam veteran, to the intensive care unit of our VA hospital in Nashville, Tenn. Frail and… viaContinue reading “A swimming pool in the ICU? By Wes Ely — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE”

HEAD-UP INTUBATION —

In anaesthetics we are trained to pre-oxygenate and intubate our theatre patients in a flat supine position. Then, when we graduate to intubating the really crook ICU/ED patients in severe heart or respiratory failure, we wise up. A paper in Anaesthesia & Analgesia demonstrates how patients … Continue reading → via HEAD-UP INTUBATION —

#Retrieval2016

Apologies if we melted your timeline with #retrieval2016. To make amends a Storify of Day 1 here: https://t.co/pBVmEsFTex — Retrieval 2017 (@_retrieval) May 10, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js And Storify of #retrieval2016 day 2 here: https://t.co/tHfnBJbaiq Stay tuned for dates for #retrieval2017 very soon — Retrieval 2017 (@_retrieval) May 10, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js