Case Based Learning in the New Year: pneumothorax & lung ultrasound
Reblogged from Auckland HEMS: Last week we ran another case-based learning session. The session consisted of a short discussion based around a case that we were tasked that involved a patient with a...
View ArticleInattentional Blindness - does this apply to pre-hospital medicine?
Reblogged from Auckland HEMS: A recent study (not sure if it's been published yet but will be soon) studied the ability of radiologists to accurately identify abnormalities on a CT scan. We're talking...
View ArticleA Note to Conference Organizers Everywhere
Reblogged from emimdoc: Social Media, FOAM... Call it what you will, it's pretty amazing. Over the last few months I attended a bunch of conferences without having to pack a single bag. In fact, I...
View ArticleDoes every patient who gets pre-hospital needle decompression need a chest...
Reblogged from Auckland HEMS: The authors of a recent study Read more… 375 more words Some new evidence about requirements of chest tubes for patients who underwent needle decompression in pre-hospital.
View ArticleActual Emergency Cricothyrotomy video
Reblogged from PHARM: Read more… 211 more words Great post by airway expert Minh Le Cong. Thanks for sharing! Nice follow up to some of the training the Auckland Rescue Helicopter did this week with...
View ArticleThe role of the physician during winch rescues - new data and our simulation...
Reblogged from Auckland HEMS: In Helicopter Emergency Services (HEMS) around the world, winching to critically ill patients is an important aspect for those in patients otherwise inaccessible by road...
View ArticleIn-flight surgical airway!
Reblogged from Auckland HEMS: Fast-forward to 40 minutes - soldier with severe maxillofacial trauma has scalpel-finger-tube cricothyroidotomy performed under IM ketamine in the back of a Blackhawk...
View ArticleFewer Hours for Doctors in Training Leading to More Mistakes
Reblogged from Health & Family: Giving residents less time on duty and more time to sleep was supposed to lead to fewer medical errors. But the latest research shows that's not the case. What's...
View ArticleARHT Surgical Airway Skills Session
Reblogged from Auckland HEMS: One of the challenges of resuscitation and pre-hospital medicine is that there are multiple high-risk but rarely performed procedures that clinicians must be ready to...
View ArticlePaper tigers - not quite ready to be tamed? by: Ken Locke
Reblogged from mededconference: Saturday April 20, 2013 Blogger: Ken Locke, Director, Transition to Residency Program and UME Faculty Lead for Portfolios Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine...
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