Continue reading “Emergency Trauma Management – A New Hope?”
Learning curve for paramedic endotracheal intubation and complications
(picture courtesy of Twitter Queensland Ambulance)
Continue reading “Learning curve for paramedic endotracheal intubation and complications”
Open Access The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 2 – The anticipated difficult airway
More Canadian open access airway goodness! no excuses to catch up with the reading!
Open Access The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 2 – The anticipated difficult airway
The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 1 – Difficult tracheal intubation encountered in an unconscious/induced patient
Canadian journal of anaesthesia OPEN access article. AWESOME work!
The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 1 – Difficult tracheal intubation encountered in an unconscious/induced patient
Inexpensive video-laryngoscopy guided intubation using a personal computer: initial experience of a novel technique
(improvised video laryngoscope setup during testing a colleague and I did)
Monash Emergency Surgical Airway Kit
Demonstration of Factors Influencing Performance of Oxygen Delivery Devices
tPA for Stroke. Again. Sorry about that.
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 stroke reared it’s ugly head again and it is clear that the debate over this has not been settled.
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To thump or not thump?
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 and pulseless ventricular tachycardia utilising the precordial thump. Resuscitation 2013 Aug 29
The author’s abstract (I’m too stingy to buy the complete paper) suggests that few studies have described the value of the precordial thump as first-line treatment of monitored out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia.
Using data from the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry out-of-hospital cardiac arres witnessed by paramedics between 2003 and 2011. The study outcomes were: impact of first shock/thump on return of spontaneous circulation and more importantly, survival to hospital discharge. 434 cases met the eligibility criteria. Seventeen patients (16.5%) observed a precordial thump induced rhythm…
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Salbutamol MDI via ETT – MacGyver Style with Dr Sean Scott
Courtesy of Dr Sean Scott demonstrating with assistance and voice of Dr Brian Burns (Greater Sydney Area HEMS)
RMA 2013 Innovation Stream = Social Media and eHealth
Nepean Difficult Airway Course
Infectious diseases physician owns the airway with a steak knife and pen
Randomized Trial of Bilevel versus Continuous Positive Airway Pressure for Acute Pulmonary Edema.
Karel Habig: To air is human
From The Intensive Care Network – another podcast from the SMACC 2013 conference. This is Dr Karel Habig, Medical Director of the Greater Sydney Area HEMS, discussing how experience from aeromedical retrieval can improve medical practice.
Click HERE for the audio (right click to open it in a new tab), accompanying slides are below:
