Intranasal ketamine analgesia
I published a case report in the EMJ highlighting the use of intranasal ketamine in a pre-hospital paediatric burns case. […]
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Trauma
Care of severely injured patient
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The lottery of pre-hospital physicians
In contrast to numerous other European nations, physicians with critical care skills do not consistently form part of the emergency […]
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Suspension syncope
Loss of consciousness can occur when a patient is suspended in a harness – ‘suspension syncope’, probably due to factors […]
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Pre-hospital physician triage
A Swiss study examined the on site triage decision making of pre-hospital emergency physicians. Dispatch of the physicians was coordinated […]
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Limits on resuscitative thoractomy in ED
Eighteen trauma centers contributed ED resuscitative thoracotomy data to a study that commenced enrollment in January 2003. During the ensuing […]
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Risk factors for cervical spine injury
Data from the Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) database were analysed to identify epidemiologic and biomechanical risk factors for cervical […]
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Balloon catheters for haemorrhage control
Something I keep up my sleeve (not literally) for managing some life-threatening vascular wounds prior to surgery is the use […]
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Bum crack fluid pump
Military guys are great at coming up with practical solutions. Need to infuse fluid in the field but have no […]
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Pre-hospital / HEMS podcast
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the amazing Scott Weingart, an emergency medicine intensivist who runs the spectacular […]
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Plasma:red cell ratios
In some circles, ‘wuntwuntwun’ is in danger of becoming the new dogma of trauma fluid replacement (ie. 1 unit of […]