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

Quality Metrics in Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care Transport: A National Delphi Project.

Revolutionary pediatric #PHARM Quality Metrics work from #AAP, laying the groundwork for @AMPAdocs‘ #GAMUT project: pic.twitter.com/SpsuQgXy0T — Bill Hinckley (@UCAirCareDoc) November 20, 2015 Quality Metrics in Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care Transport: A National Delphi Project.

Ventilator Management Simulation Debriefing

Case 1 – “Bucking the Vent” You have inherited a patient in the VA MICU at signout.  The patient presented with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and altered mental status and was intubated for airway protection and hypoxic/hypercarbic respiratory failure.  The patient’s altered mental status has resolved but the patient remains intubated waiting for a second large-volumeContinue reading “Ventilator Management Simulation Debriefing”