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Straight Talk about Blades and Kids

Some of the more popular posts on this site have been the ones where we vox pop paediatric anaesthetists for their top tips on a topic. The brief is easy: what are the things you most commonly say to people trying to learn this particular skill. Today’s edition – laryngoscopy. So here is a collection of thoughtsContinue reading “Straight Talk about Blades and Kids”

A Bit Early and A Bit Far Away

We welcome another new contributor to the site with this post. Jodie Martin is a clinical educator and flight nurse working in the Top End of Australia. She has just finished up a Masters which included looking at a big retrieval challenge – preterm births in the wild reaches of the Northern Territory.  Which retrieval taskings scare youContinue reading “A Bit Early and A Bit Far Away”

Coordinating medical emergencies in regional and rural Australia

Cool, Cairns @RoyalFlyingDoc staff. Coordinating medical emergencies in regional and rural Australia https://t.co/ZKQbgMHVW3 via @ABCNews — Karen Yates (@karenyatesjcu) February 23, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The Urine Drug Screen – Know Thy Limitations

We are all guilty of ordering them in the ED, but do we really know what we’re ordering? Urine Sample. By Turbotorque (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Implications of the Urine Drug Screen1 literature review looked at 7 different retrospective studies describing a total of 1,405 patients and found the urine drug…Continue reading “The Urine Drug Screen – Know Thy Limitations”