Ketamine
For paediatric procedural sedation, adult ICC insertion, modified RSI in the shocked or asthmatic patient, refractory pain, and several other ED applications Ketamine is useful
View ArticleSmall things
An Australian ICU study provides evidence for a methodical, clean technique for CVC insertion ..
View ArticleAn airway in 30 seconds
Dr Gary Middleton provides a demonstration of the scalpel-finger-tube emergency surgical airway technique published by Paix and Griggs in EMA 2011.
View ArticleThe new 7 P’s of RSI
Positioning, Pre-Oxygenation, Prongs, Preparation, Pharmacology, Placement, Post-intubation care. These are the 7 P's that should now be the standard approach to RSI in the Emergency Department.
View ArticleRSI checklist
There are plenty of them out there - the question is: how does one use a list safely?
View ArticlePneumothorax
This week's EM teaching involves reading and then posting your analysis of a journal article on the management of spontaneous pneumothorax in a French hospital.
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