Teaching Practical Skills with SETT UP
Teaching practical procedures on the shop floor, the five stage approach to SETT UP for success
Category Procedure
Be a Guidewire Guru
A video by Dr Brett Nelson demonstrating the neat little trick of straightening a guidewire with one hand.
A Problem with Plumbing
The plumbing problem is this: a man has a urinary catheter in situ, it won't come out. What are you going to do about it?
Tension pneumothorax – time to change the old mantra?
ATMIST handover - 28 y/o male, injured 25 mins ago, penetrating chest trauma, Asherman seal anterior chest, RR 35, deteriorating, high flow O2 administered.
Own the Wound!
Own the wound is a collection of videos on wound care created by Michelle Lin the guru behind Academic Life in Emergency Medicine.
Spaso technique
Spaso Miljesic (1946 - ) Croatian, Nurse Specialist. Famous for the 'Spaso technique' for the reduction of shoulder dislocations described in 1998.
Everything ECMO
In specialist centres, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a now a mainstay of the management of cardio/respiratory failure refractory to other measures. However, much of the clinical information required to care for ECMO patients at the bedside remains inaccessible to…
Tracheostomy
This is the LITFL CCC master page for tracheostomy — follow the links for further discussion of the following:
Procedures and Coagulopathy
Procedures and Coagulopathy: many procedures are contra-indicated in the presence of coagulopathy; the degree of acceptable coagulopathy for different procedures is controversial
Regional Anaesthesia in the Critically Ill
Regional Anaesthesia in the Critically Ill
Pericardiocentesis
Pericardiocentesis: procedure used to remove pericardial effusion by needle aspiration; treatment of pericardial effusion and/or tamponade
Intercostal Drain Insertion
Intercostal catheter insertion, chest drain