Author Archives: alanlaverty

Our Clinical Governance Day returns on 25/1/16. We have the Christmas period to catch up on so there will be oodles of M+M with lashings of Airway Registry with plenty of opportunity to explore the recent challenges our caseload has … Continue reading →

Next week sees a Christmas Quiz filled with a little medicine and padded with questionably useful trivia. No prizes have been decided upon yet but the loser will be volunteered for an interstate bariatric ballon pump transfer over the festive … Continue reading →

  November 8th will see the commencement of the C2T2C2 study. The aim of this study is to determine the utility of transcutaneous capnometry measurement of arterial carbon dioxide in transported adult patients. Control of pCO2 is essential in the … Continue reading →

After the success of the Airway Extravaganza (thanks to all involved and especially to Clare Hayes-Bradley!) it’s time to settle down and return to the time-honoured basics of governance in the form of Morbidity and Mortality. Geoff Healy shall be … Continue reading →

Our next Clinical Governance Day is on 5 October 2016 from 0800-1400. Dr Albert Chiu (Interventional Neuroradiologist at Prince of Wales) will be kindly joining us and presenting on the latest developments in clot retrieval for hyperacute stroke. A multidisciplinary … Continue reading →