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”

ETM Podcast Episode 10 – Bruce Paix & Andrew Perry – Haemorrhage control in trauma

In this episode Andrew Perry interviews Bruce Paix, a very experienced pre-hospital/retrieval (and military) Anaesthetist and trauma expert about haemorrhage control in trauma. This is a great episode with some real pearls.  Bruce challenges the traditional teaching in trauma by asking us to not be afraid of the hypotensive trauma patient, but rather to accept…Continue reading “ETM Podcast Episode 10 – Bruce Paix & Andrew Perry – Haemorrhage control in trauma”