Author Archives: ketaminh

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
A relatively brief and evidence free opinion piece about intubation. As always, feedback is welcomed. Play in player below, or right click file at bottom of page and select “Save As” [audio http://ambofoam.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ambofoam-intubation-rant.mp3%5D AmboFOAM Intubation Rant Podcast

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
Here is another guest post by my colleague James. This is an excellent piece on the importance of approaching scenarios in a cohesive, standardised manner that still allows some flexibility. Emergency medicine is actually based on some pretty simple concepts as James discusses. As an ALS clinical instructor who also dabbles…

Originally posted on Rural Doctors Net:
OK, thanks to all who answered CASE#6 ‘Find the bleeding, stop the bleeding’ Plenty of good ideas, although some of the options are more realistic than others given the inevitable constraints of rurality. Glad that none followed the EMST mantra to the letter and killed him… The setting of…

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
I was just given a fantastic reminder of just how excellent social media can be for those of us in the medical fields.  That’s right, it’s not just for drunken rambling or posting photos of your lunch/cat/alcohol/genitals… I was browsing twitter when I came across the following tweet https://twitter.com/australiandr/status/372973920833388544 Clicking through…