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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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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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 […]
All Updates, Resus, Trauma
London Trauma Conference 2014 Part 2
Day three is Air Ambulance and pre-hospital day and the great and the good are here en mass. The heavy […]
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How You Train is How You Fight
Simulation makes us more effective. I think it’s good to consider how one would deal with emergency situations in every […]
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Even the dead exhale CO2
Cardiac arrest patients sometimes have unrecognised oesophageal intubations because clinicians omit capnography, based on the assumption that circulatory arrest leads […]
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Upstairs vs Downstairs: an EPIC Conundrum
A new breed, and new terminology Scott Weingart MD and colleagues have published a discussion paper [1] outlining the role […]
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London Calling – part 2
Notes from Days 2 & 3 of the London Trauma Conference Day 2 of the LTC was really good. There […]
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Less smelly than chicken drumsticks
Emergency and orthopaedic doctors Elizabeth and Anthony Bateman from Britain describe their method of making a bone simulator for intraosseous […]
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Pre-hospital RSI by different specialties
This aim of the study was to evaluate the tracheal intubation success rate of doctors drawn from different clinical specialities […]