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AiR Videos- [131] Hot Floppy Bougies
- [130] Hyoepiglottic Ligament
- [129] Fluid Flow During Laryngoscopy; OOHCA
- [128] Laryngoscope Too Deep - Then Pops Down
- [127] Parker Tip Tube Grabs Epiglottis
- [126] Dentures
- [125] Cuff Herniation
- [124] Black ETT Lines Visible - Becomes Extubation
- [123] CMAC after iGel AScope
- [122] Ambu AScope via Flexi ETT Through iGel3
Category Archives: General PH&RM
Clinical Governance Day, May 4th 2016
During next week’s CGD we’ll have a focus on Burns with some excellent outside speakers to share a case of burns from the Snowy Mountains. We’ll also get an update on burns management principles and advances in burns therapy from … Continue reading
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Clinical Governance Day, 20th April 2016
As well as our regular Airway Audit and M&M we will have an update on the research that it being conducted by our own team as well as do a deep dive into the latest evidence around the drug treatment … Continue reading
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Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine
If your career is in retrieval medicine, or you’d like it to be, you might want to strongly consider sitting the Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. There is no course, just … Continue reading
Airway Registry Pointers and Reminders
Once a month, the structured reviews of all of our intubation attempts are presented at a Clinical Governance Day. Common themes and specific finer points are brought forward in an effort to improve our performance as a group. Below are … Continue reading
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Tagged airway, bright light, CGD, critical review, equipment, intubation, tips and tricks
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Prehospital Emergency Anaesthesia Checklist
Our RSI checklist is performed in a challenge-response fashion. The clinician who established the equipment set-up reads, while the other clinician checks and responds. Any discussion, such as difficult laryngoscopy plan, briefing the individual who is immobilising the neck, and … Continue reading
Thinking of the children…
For a great review article of RSI in children check out the following article: BJA Educ (2016) 16 (4): 120-123 Place of rapid sequence induction in paediatric anaesthesia. R Newton, H Hack Predicting difficult airways in children: evaluation-of-difficult-airway-predictors-in-pediatric-population-as-a-clinical-investigation-2155-6148.1000256 Some key … Continue reading
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Clinical Governance Day, April 6th 2016
This week’s CGD will be an cerebral infusion of paediatric excellence. We have a host of bona fide paediatric experts in our midst and now’s your chance to pick up their pearls of wisdom and maybe to share some of your … Continue reading
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Literature Review: Are we intubating burn patients inappropriately?
Review at CGD and summary by Dr. Alan Laverty Romanowski KS, Palmieri TL, Sen S, Greenhalgh DG. More Than One Third of Intubations in Patients Transferred to Burn Centers are Unnecessary Journal of Burn Care & Research. 2015 Aug 17 … Continue reading
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Clinical Governance Day 23 March 2016
We look forward to your attendance and participation at the next Clinical Governance Day, beginning at 0800 on Wednesday 23rd March 2016. There is an assortment of educational goodness on the agenda. Cameron Edgar starts us off with one of … Continue reading
Drowning Case Review Learning Points (CGD 09/03/16)
Drowning is an all too common cause of morbidity and death, particularly in a region as rich in water activities as New South Wales. Providers of prehospital critical care should seek to master drowning management, as it is one of … Continue reading
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Tagged CRM, drowning, lessons learned, oxygenation, PEEP, PHARM, Prehospital, ventilation
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Greater Sydney Area HEMS 