Humeral Intraosseous – Stay In & Stay Straight
This video shows the mechanism for dislodgement and deformation of humeral intraosseous needles and how to avoid this. In summary, […]
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Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases – 2
Towards Excellence in Resuscitation Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases #2 Occasionally we step out of the resuscitation room feeling like a […]
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Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases
Towards Excellence in Resuscitation Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases #1 A resuscitationist agonises. These words, expressed by Scott Weingart during a […]
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Understanding Elevated Lactate
I find clinicians are quick to consider sepsis and hypoperfusion/ischaemia as causes of a raised lactate, but slow to include […]
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Head Rotation for Mask Ventilation
This is a guest post from Dr Per Bredmose, anaesthetist and retrieval medicine physician in Norway, also known as Viking […]
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Spot the WOBBLER in syncope!
Syncope is a common ED presentation. An ECG is a critical investigation in syncope to identify the cause, including rare […]
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It’s Tamponade – Now What?
You ultrasound the chest of your shocked patient in resus with fluid refractory hypotension. You see fluid around the heart. […]
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Difficult Airway? What Kind Exactly?
Mention the term ‘difficult airway’ and many of us will conjure mental images of some kind of distorted anatomy. However, […]
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Convergent Evolution in the Jungles of Critical Care
By Stuart Duffin Expat Brit, intensive care physician and anaesthetist at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Stuart trained in […]
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Advice To A Young Resuscitationist
This talk was the opening plenary given at smacc Chicago. The title they gave me was ‘Advice To A Young […]