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Originally posted on MEDEST:
Blessed the emergency systems who train their professionals with simulation Blessed the emergency professionals who challenge themselfs day by day in simulation Facing their fears to win their weakness Improving the quality of their work for the good of all patients They are the future of emergency medicine Shame on emergency…

Originally posted on MEDEST:
? https://twitter.com/karimbrohi/status/491343843145838592 Inspiring discussion on Twitter (Minh Le Cong@rfdsdoc, Karim Brohi @karimbrohi and Peter Sherren@PBSherren) The topic: Your hypotensive blunt/penetrating trauma patient with associated severe TBI needs a vent. How do you set it and how you achive your physiological goals? Is it possible to mantain eucapnia, avoiding hypercapnic insult to…

Originally posted on MEDEST:
Following some discussion on who owns the airway (see the comments at the post Paralytic is the answer on EMPills Blog) Have to admit: I’m an occasional intubator. I manage something like 10 airways per month, all of them are “non conventional”, (no operating room, no chance to wake the patient,…

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
My friend Minh from the PHARM blog has been hit hard by the news of a ketamine shortage.  I haven’t the wherewithal to set up a benefit concert for Minh, but the least I could do was record this number to help ease his pain (although in a way that ketamine never could)…

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
Those fantastic Vikings over at one of my favourite FOAMed sites, ScanCrit have been rampaging through the dogma of cervical collars for some time, and now it seems the campaign is coming to a head: Bergen EMS will no longer apply c-collars to patients This is a pretty big move; c-collars have…

Originally posted on MEDEST:
We are tryng to assemble a special bag dedicated to winch operations. This need came from many of us who found very difficult to be winched on the scene with the actual rescue bag, cause of his weight and size. So we decided to assemble a smaller bag, less heavy with…

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
For all you trauma junkies out there (and let’s face it, that’s most of us at some stage) there is a new way to get your fix of top-notch, innovative, interactive and exciting education…. The Emergency Trauma Management Course is a new short course designed by Andy Buck (@edexam) and Amit…

Originally posted on Auckland HEMS:
This slideshow, assembled by Dr Chris Denny, shows the ARHT & Auckland HEMS team during the first two years of the HEMS initiative. It was presented at a recent strategic planning meeting to plot the future course of the service. The gentleman whose photo is shown at the start is…

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
Sorry to carry on about this, but I can’t help myself… The other night SBS television in Australia aired a special on stroke (found online here)  It brought together some stroke survivors, neurologists, emergency doctors and so on to discuss stroke and stroke treatment.  Of course the issue of tPA for…

Originally posted on Mark Raines:
I wonder if the authors of the October 4th’s NEJM Journal Watch Alert saw the irony? Firstly a review of a paper which examined the utility of the precordial thump for out of hospital cardiac events. Nehme Z, Andrew E, Bernard SA, Smith K.  Treatment of monitored out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation…