Beyond the ED: COVID-19 and Critical Care
In this podcast, we talk about the clinical journey of a COVID-19 patient and some insights from the critical care unit. There are some concepts here that we probably don’t …
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101 Reflective Lessons from a Year with Sydney HEMS. Part Three: Clinical
This post, detailing my reflections on clinical retrieval medicine, is the third in a series recording my reflections on the past twelve months, which I have spent working for Sydney HEMS …
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JC: Intubate or not intubate? That is the question…
Clinical scenario: A multi-morbid, elderly patient with renal failure and recently diagnosed hyperkalaemia suffers a cardiac arrest in your busy resuscitation area before you can start appropriate treatment. You …
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JC: Helmets or masks for NIV. St.Emlyn’s
We use a lot of NIV in Virchester. It’s a great technique that can be started in the emergency department as a supportive therapy or as a bridge to intubation …
JC: The last breath for apnoeic oxygenation?
Apnoeic oxygenation in emergency intubation in the ED is a concept that has emerged in the past few years and has been promoted by the FOAMed community quite extensively. I …
Self Experimentation in Medical Education – LA for ABGs
You are probably aware that many great scientific discoveries have been made when doctors decide to experiment on themselves. Self experimentation is sort of a tradition – take the famous …
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V & A in the ED – blood gases – St.Emlyn’s
“Why are you doing an Arterial Blood Gas on that patient?” I thought it was a decent enough question to put to one of our senior EM trainees in the …