Followership is a high‑impact teamwork competency: active, engaged clinicians who speak up, monitor teammates, and adapt fluidly between leading and following boost team performance — provided leaders, culture, and systems make those behaviours possible.
pyramid dressing technique for temporary control of extremity arterial haemorrhage, converting tourniquet control into focused local pressure.
Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) procedure description, diagnostic performance, indications/ contra-indications, complications, comparison to alternatives, and useful videos for learning.
Flexible nasoendoscopy (FNE) uses in critical care, indications and contra-indications, technique, anatomy and key findings, and useful videos for learning.
Phalen test variants for carpal tunnel syndrome: classic wrist-flexion, modified Phalen and reverse Phalen/Wormser test explained.
Bronchoscopic foreign body removal including: indications, assessment and planning, flexible versus rigid bronchoscopy, retrieval tools and techniques, and critical care scenarios.
Airway foreign bodies (AFBs) are potentially life‑threatening. This CCC post considers causes/ risk factors, pathophysiology, complications, clinical features, investigations, and management.
Hoffmann-Tinel sign is paresthesia in the distal cutaneous distribution of an injured peripheral nerve evoked by tapping on the nerve more proximally.
Sitting mentally preparing for a job interview? Dr Clare Skinner follows up her 15 solid gold tips for how to ace the consultant interview with some advice for early career medical officers.
Bronchoscopy is widely used during percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) to improve safety and accuracy, and to facilitate procedural supervision.
Carpal tunnel syndrome clinical signs: Hoffmann–Tinel, Phalen, Durkan, Katz hand diagram, flick sign, CTS-6 and related tests.
VAFI is video-assisted flexible intubation and FARSI is flexiscope-assisted rapid sequence intubation. These hybrid airway techniques are used to overcome supraglottic and infraglottic airway problems, respectively.