Category Archives: FOAMEd

#badEM16: Charmaine Cunningham – The gamble: do I pay or do I stay — #badEM

Selling assets in order to pay for care so that your child has a chance of survival should not be a decision that a parent is required to make, and yet often it is…. I’m Charmaine and I’m passionate about access to care. For #badEM16 I combined some of my interests, including the system, how… viaContinue reading “#badEM16: Charmaine Cunningham – The gamble: do I pay or do I stay — #badEM”

Recommended practice for out-of-hospital emergency anaesthesia in adults: Statement from the Out-of-Hospital Emergency Anaesthesia Working Group of the Emergency Medicine Research Group of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

@ketaminh prehospital #anesthesia :european journal recommendations #airway https://t.co/FKM74nfju8 — Joachim Unger (@xaqu1n) November 13, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

What Will You Do With This Tiny Person? — Songs or Stories

Not that long ago, Dr Andrew Weatherall had the job of facilitating a discussion about neonatal anaesthesia at the annual Society of Paediatric Anaesthetists of New Zealand and Australia conference. About 15 people were there and this is a best effort at trying to collate the things those clever people said. Let’s start with the […]Continue reading “What Will You Do With This Tiny Person? — Songs or Stories”

I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now (Edition 1 – Direct and Indirect Pressure) — The Collective

Sometimes the really basic stuff needs better coverage. This series will probably start popping up a bit because sometimes it’s good to get people to share the stuff they wish someone said at the start. Here’s Greg Brown with simple techniques that could make all the difference that we should definitely do well. Here are […]Continue reading “I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now (Edition 1 – Direct and Indirect Pressure) — The Collective”

Under Pressure – Hitting that Arterial Line — Songs or Stories

It’s been a while since we’ve had a tips and tricks post. Having covered things about peripheral cannulation, thoughts on central lines, insights into bag-mask work and pointers for laryngoscope use it seems like time to get the finger on the pulse. Putting in an arterial cannula can be a pretty tricky exercise. There isContinue reading “Under Pressure – Hitting that Arterial Line — Songs or Stories”

The Remote Bad Stuff — The Collective

Last time Jodie Martin, Flight Nurse extraordinaire dropped by she shared one of our most popular posts ever. Jodie returns with a little on the Top End experience of sepsis. Time for a look at some remote medicine again. CareFlight provides the aeromedical service for the top half of the Northern Territory (NT) in Australia. […]Continue reading “The Remote Bad Stuff — The Collective”

TEACHING BY HUMILIATION AND BELITTLEMENT. — C-Foam

IS THIS STILL HAPPENING? The BMJ published a quantitative study reviewing medical student teaching experiences. Thankfully there were many examples of positive role models and effective and approachable teachers providing guidance and support. Alarmingly, there were also reports of teaching by humiliation and a hierarchical and competitive atmosphere, particularly during clinical training years. No one… viaContinue reading “TEACHING BY HUMILIATION AND BELITTLEMENT. — C-Foam”

The Rest of Their Lives — The Collective

At the recent Student Paramedics Australasia International Conference 2016 held in Sydney, Dr Andrew Weatherall was given the topic of “things paramedics can do to produce better long-term outcomes after traumatic brain injury”. This is a version of that talk modified for the blog. This topic, that someone else came up with, gets it. SoContinue reading “The Rest of Their Lives — The Collective”

#badEM16: Ross Hofmeyr – My best and biggest blunders — #badEM

“Let your mistakes haunt you and they will destroy you. Let your mistakes teach you and they will grow you” – Ross Hofmeyr Dr Ross Hofmeyr talks about making mistakes and how we deal with them through telling the stories of his best and biggest blunders. Because the only clinicians who do not make… via #badEM16:Continue reading “#badEM16: Ross Hofmeyr – My best and biggest blunders — #badEM”