Tracheostomy
This is the LITFL CCC master page for tracheostomy — follow the links for further discussion of the following:
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EMA August 2012
Short editorial snippets from Vol. 24 Issue 3 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online on 3 August 2012.
Better people make better doctors
What does society expect of today’s doctor? More importantly, what does today’s doctor expect of themselves? How can we become better doctors?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 159
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 159 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Code Black
Attendees and faculty at the recent International Emergency Medicine Teaching Course in Baltimore will empathize with the critical nature of this scenario (each day bigger and bigger coffee machines were brought to the course!).
James Barry (Margaret Ann Bulkley)
Biography Born ‘Margaret Ann Bulkley’ Cork, Ireland 1809-1812 MD Edinburgh University 1813 – St Thomas Hospital, London; examined at the Royal College of Surgeons and recruited into the army Inspector-General of Hospitals Died 25 July 1865 Medical Eponyms Key Medical…
Red Dust, dingoes, trauma and Sepsis
Dr Chris Edwards @EMtraveller recounts his time as a remote retrieval registrar based in Alice Springs
Stuffed, Speeding and Busted!
Just before being busted by the cops, your patient stuffed a package containing metamphetamines into his mouth and swallowed. How are you going to handle this one?
EMA June 2012
Short editorial snippets from Vol. 24 Issue 3 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online on 4 June 2012.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 158
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 158 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Stu Marshall on Airway Strategies
Stuart Marshall is an anaesthetist with a PhD in Human Factors and is the Clinical Director of Simulation Education at The Alfred (based at the Australian Centre for Health Innovation). In this FOAM video, created for the Critically Ill Airway…
The World at War!
That’s right, SMACC SimWars is turning into a global conflict. Hot on the heels of EMCrit’s Scott Weingart announcing himself to be one of SMACC’s elite SimWars judges (and confessing his delight in the sadistic elements of his co-creation), the…