Contaminated Airways and the Three Trajectories
Ready are you? What know you of ready? ~ Yoda The Standard SALAD Approach The SALAD technique (Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy […]
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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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The Course I Made For Me
My whole career has been about finding ways to optimise resuscitation. Many others also have the bug. The ‘resuscitationist movement’ […]