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’ […]
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Humbling Reminders of the Power of Educators
I’ve always had strong feelings about education. I was an uninspired and underachieving medical student, exasperated at the fact that […]
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Hilar Twists & Human Error
An engaging scene from ‘Code Blue‘ demonstrated a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service team managing a patient with major thoracic haemorrhage. They […]
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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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Awesome Conference on the Sunshine Coast
The Spring Seminar on Emergency Medicine is going to Noosa in September 2016! In case you haven’t been to an […]
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Why And How I Teach
I love education. As a trainee, I was lucky to be guided by a handful of excellent mentors along the path. […]
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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 […]
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Learning To Speak Resuscitese
In the resus room, clarity of communication between team members is critical to patient safety and effective resuscitation. We are […]
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Reflections on an ass-kicking
Last weekend I got my butt handed to me and I’m feeling really good about it. I entered my first […]