JC: Cricoid Pressure and RSI, do we still need it? St Emlyn’s — St.Emlyn’s

St.Emlyn’s – Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This blog reviews the first large randomised controlled trial of cricoid pressure in emergency patients as published in JAMA Surgery, October 2018. Cricoid pressure is controversial. Although it has been taught in anaesthesia practice, since it’s original description by Sellick1, as an essential requirement when performing RSI, the evidence for…

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Getting my feminist FIX in New York — Nomadic GP

There was something distinctly different about #FIX18. Walking in to a conference with 95% women felt pretty odd. I was intimidated amongst so many high-heeled, urbanite, overwhelmingly American emergency physicians. This Aussie country GP felt somewhat out of place. It was quite the contrast from the laid back gatherings of my other recent conference experiences. Maybe […]

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Doctored Films – A flying Doctor & film maker!

Hi folks
Let me introduce you to a Flying Doctor Colleague of mine, Dr Tim Duncan. He works with me in Mount Isa Royal Flying Doctor Service.He is also a talented film maker and won a couple of film festival prizes. Check out his films and website DOCTOREDFILMS

Aboriginal Heart from Tim Duncan on Vimeo.

A short story about life… — Don’t Forget the Bubbles

Cite this article as: Tagg, A. A short story about life…, Don’t Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at:http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16688This is the second of a two part post based on my talk for FIX18 entitled A short story about death and life. We published the first part yesterday. As we were playing in the courtyard by the…

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A short story about death… — Don’t Forget the Bubbles

Cite this article as: Tagg, A. A short story about death…, Don’t Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at:http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16636This is the first of a two part post based on my talk for FIX18 entitled A short story about death and life… We’ll publish the second part tomorrow. “Someone will be along in a minute to explain what…

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EM Nerd-The Case of the Inferior Superiority — EMCrit Project

A perfect trial would require minimal statistical tools to assist in its analysis. Such a trial would be so large that the sample approached the true likeness of the broader population it intended to emulate, thus the risk of sampling error would be minimal. The confidence intervals surrounding the point estimates would be so minute,…

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