Category Archives: FOAMEd

CASE #5 : SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY BABY

Originally posted on Rural Doctors Net:
I am putting this one up more to invite contributions from the community. It’s a case that has been included for our PRCC students – the guys who spend the entire third year of their four year graduate entry medical degree attached to a rural community (the so-called parallel…

Airway Checklist Practicalities and FOAMed PHARM Kit Dump Update

Confessions of a novice PHARM co-author: I am guilty of blogging negligence for not posting this sooner. I had an asynchronous conversation with Scott Weingart on Airway Checklist real world implementation …

PODCAST #18 : Dr Ed Valentine on BASICS (UK)

Originally posted on Rural Doctors Net:
Dr Ed Valentine is a dual-trained EM & ICU doc in the Old Dart, currently spending a year as a retrieval Fellow with London HEMS and responding as a BASICS volunteer in his home county of Wiltshire, UK We talk about the role of BASICS in the UK to…

Intubation via a Supraglottic Airway without any paralytic

Jim DuCanto demonstrates how he intubates via the AirQ SGA using the AirVu optical stylet. This is done using gaseous and local anaesthesia alone WITHOUT RECOURSE TO PARALYTICS OR IV INDUCTION AGENTS