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CICO Trainer for under $5 — KI Doc

The dreaded ‘cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate’ scenario is one which most clinicians will never encounter. In elective anaesthesia, the CICO rate has been described by Cook & Macdougall as 1/5000 in elective cases, proceeding to emergency surgical airway in 1/50,000 (a more recent study from Japan describes CICO as 1/32,000 – either way, a rareContinue reading “CICO Trainer for under $5 — KI Doc”

Lining It All Up — Songs or Stories

It’s been a while since a collected tips and tricks post. Previously we’ve had posts on cannulation, bag-mask technique and laryngoscopy. Time to get back to vessels and some odds and ends on central lines. Anaesthetists are skilled at many things. Airways. Making scrubs look fashionable. Or deliberately unfashionable. Even making small talk. Sometimes withoutContinue reading “Lining It All Up — Songs or Stories”

Still Meandering Towards Apneic Oxygenation — Emergency Medicine Literature of Note

The use of apneic oxygenation – so-called NODESAT – has been gaining rapidly in popularity. Curiously enough, however, its continued promotion occurs in the absence of high-quality evidence for benefit.This most recent study is a prospective, observational evaluation of two years’ worth of intubation procedural outcomes. Patients receiving passive oxygenation during intubation were compared with… viaContinue reading “Still Meandering Towards Apneic Oxygenation — Emergency Medicine Literature of Note”

SMACCDUB – A Trainee’s Perspective. St.Emlyn’s — St.Emlyn’s

St.Emlyn's – Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Having recently returned to the real world after attending SMACCDUB in Dublin, we thought we should try to articulate some of the things we learnt. Rich: Having only lost my SMACC virginity last year, I had little by way of comparison other that what had been a monumental… via SMACCDUBContinue reading “SMACCDUB – A Trainee’s Perspective. St.Emlyn’s — St.Emlyn’s”

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”