Author Archives: ketaminh

PHARM quality – how do you know when you’re doing it well?

This post from Dr Alan Garner tackles a core problem for all practitioners who give a damn – how do you know you’re doing it well? A chat worth having and Alan has a pretty good summary of the Carebundle approach.  How do we measure quality in prehospital and retrieval medicine?  Speed?  Number of proceduresContinue reading “PHARM quality – how do you know when you’re doing it well?”

Clinical Question: How effective is intra-articular lidocaine for shoulder reduction?

The use of intra-articular lidocaine for shoulder dislocation is a reasonable and evidence-based approach to facilitate shoulder reduction. This Clinical Question outlines the evidence to support its use and links to an excellent point-of-care video for outlining the procedure. Source: Clinical Question: How effective is intra-articular lidocaine for shoulder reduction?

How full can the balloon be?

Ultrasound. Is there anything it can’t do? Well, yes. Lots of things although gastric ultrasound is supposed to be one of the things it does do. Andrew Weatherall has a bit on ultrasounds, guts and the real question: when should we worry about aspiration?  I’d like to think I’m pretty welcoming of technology. I amContinue reading “How full can the balloon be?”