Author Archives: ketaminh

Things to Do When Blunt Things Happen — The Collective

Continuing the series of sharing Carebundles, Alan Garner moves on to go through the stuff to include in multiple blunt trauma. OK, part 2 in our Carebundle series. This time we will take a look at our multiple blunt trauma bundle. This excludes isolated head injury which we dealt with in the previous post. WhyContinue reading “Things to Do When Blunt Things Happen — The Collective”

smaccDUB summary: Lead poisoning in Nigeria — #badEM

Tweet [the below are rough notes taken by @kat__evans whilst attending the below talk] The amazing Natalie Thurtle @turtle1doc spoke to us about Lead Poisoning outbreak in Zamfara, Nigeria. The very first point she made is that her talk is in the Conference Stream called “Critical care out there’ Her involvement & story challenges outContinue reading “smaccDUB summary: Lead poisoning in Nigeria — #badEM”

smaccMINI summary: Paediatric Critical Care Workshop for non-paediatricians — #badEM

Tweet Good day badEM followers.. as you know @craigwylie & myself (@kat__evans) are at #smaccDUB in Ireland. I attended smaccMINI whilst Craig was attending smaccFORCE (prehospital workshop – his summary to follow in the days to come) I am going to attempt to summarise learning points from rough notes [& personal musings] from smaccMINI that would…Continue reading “smaccMINI summary: Paediatric Critical Care Workshop for non-paediatricians — #badEM”

#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”