Category Archives: FOAMEd

Things to Do When Blunt Things Happen — The Collective

Continuing the series of sharing Carebundles, Alan Garner moves on to go through the stuff to include in multiple blunt trauma. OK, part 2 in our Carebundle series. This time we will take a look at our multiple blunt trauma bundle. This excludes isolated head injury which we dealt with in the previous post. WhyContinue reading “Things to Do When Blunt Things Happen — The Collective”

smaccDUB summary: Lead poisoning in Nigeria — #badEM

Tweet [the below are rough notes taken by @kat__evans whilst attending the below talk] The amazing Natalie Thurtle @turtle1doc spoke to us about Lead Poisoning outbreak in Zamfara, Nigeria. The very first point she made is that her talk is in the Conference Stream called “Critical care out there’ Her involvement & story challenges outContinue reading “smaccDUB summary: Lead poisoning in Nigeria — #badEM”

Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front

The UC Division of EMS has recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate EMS Week 2016.  We are honored to be able to engage EMS Providers throughout the world with this forum.  If you practice pre-hospital medicine, we would like to say thank you and that we appreciate everything you do to provide a high…Continue reading “Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front”

Palliative Intensive Care: Why not?

As you know, next May 26th and 27th is taking place in Barcelona the II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care.One of the discussion pannel is called “Before and the end” and “Palliative Intensive Care: why not?”, and will be moderated by Dra. Mari Cruz Martín with the speakers Dr. Enric Benito (Coordinator of Palliative…Continue reading “Palliative Intensive Care: Why not?”

A Bundle for TBI

Not that long ago Dr Alan Garner described the process for developing Carebundles as part of trying to deliver the best care and measure it at the same time. Here’s the first of the follow-up posts: on TBI. The isolated severe traumatic brain injury bundle As a follow up to our blog about Carebundles and their generalContinue reading “A Bundle for TBI”

Sharing and Skinning Furry Things — Songs or Stories

If people giving anaesthetics are still using a bunch of different techniques, it’s fair to assume that all those options have their own pros and cons. You could argue that’s true for most of anaesthesia but this post is going to look at one situation and one option: airway endoscopy and spontaneous breathing. It’s byContinue reading “Sharing and Skinning Furry Things — Songs or Stories”