Author Archives: ketaminh

Acute Behavioural Disturbance — St.Emlyn’s

St.Emlyn's – Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed A 31 year old gentleman is wheeled into your resuscitation room by two paramedics and four police officers. You were pre-alerted five minutes ago that you would be receiving an agitated man who was found in the street acting aggressively. The police tell you they found evidence of cocaine use.…Continue reading “Acute Behavioural Disturbance — St.Emlyn’s”

Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front

The UC Division of EMS has recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate EMS Week 2016.  We are honored to be able to engage EMS Providers throughout the world with this forum.  If you practice pre-hospital medicine, we would like to say thank you and that we appreciate everything you do to provide a high…Continue reading “Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front”

Palliative Intensive Care: Why not?

As you know, next May 26th and 27th is taking place in Barcelona the II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care.One of the discussion pannel is called “Before and the end” and “Palliative Intensive Care: why not?”, and will be moderated by Dra. Mari Cruz Martín with the speakers Dr. Enric Benito (Coordinator of Palliative…Continue reading “Palliative Intensive Care: Why not?”

A Bundle for TBI

Not that long ago Dr Alan Garner described the process for developing Carebundles as part of trying to deliver the best care and measure it at the same time. Here’s the first of the follow-up posts: on TBI. The isolated severe traumatic brain injury bundle As a follow up to our blog about Carebundles and their generalContinue reading “A Bundle for TBI”

Pressure ulcers, indentation marks and pain from cervical spine immobilization with extrication collars and headblocks: An observational study

Interesting article: Pressure ulcers and skin indentation from spinal immobilisation.https://t.co/rDLiA0Rtef pic.twitter.com/HEh54hHMDJ — Rob Fenwick (@robfenwick) May 15, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Sharing and Skinning Furry Things — Songs or Stories

If people giving anaesthetics are still using a bunch of different techniques, it’s fair to assume that all those options have their own pros and cons. You could argue that’s true for most of anaesthesia but this post is going to look at one situation and one option: airway endoscopy and spontaneous breathing. It’s byContinue reading “Sharing and Skinning Furry Things — Songs or Stories”