Urgent action needed on hotel quarantine | AMA

The latest cases of COVID-19 transmission in Victoria are yet another failure of infection control systems in hotel quarantine and show the need for urgent action nationally, AMA President Dr Omar Khorshid said today.

The Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport has been evacuated and more than 950 hotel quarantine workers are in self-isolation after two new cases were identified yesterday.
— Read on ama.com.au/media/urgent-action-needed-hotel-quarantine

Current airway management practices after a failed intubation attempt in Australian and New Zealand emergency departments – Arnold – – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library

Current airway management practices after a failed intubation attempt in Australian and New Zealand emergency departments – Arnold – – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library
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The hijacking of public health and the price paid during the COVID-19 pandemic | NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence, Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response

The catastrophic failure of many Western democracies such as the US, UK and many European countries to control COVID-19 has been shocking. Prior to this pandemic, there has been a long-held view in these same countries that only fragile states and low-income countries will fail during a pandemic, and would need benevolent assistance from high income countries.
— Read on iser.med.unsw.edu.au/blog/hijacking-public-health-and-price-paid-during-covid-19-pandemic

Neurologic outcomes following the introduction of a policy for using soft cervical collars in suspected traumatic cervical spine injury: A retrospective chart review – Asha – 2021 – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library

Neurologic outcomes following the introduction of a policy for using soft cervical collars in suspected traumatic cervical spine injury: A retrospective chart review – Asha – 2021 – Emergency Medicine Australasia – Wiley Online Library
— Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1742-6723.13646