Cognitive Aids in Healthcare
Dr David Borshoff reviews cognitive aids in healthcare, including: their roles, how they should be used, designed, and implemented into patient care.
George Fell
George Edward Fell (1849 – 1918); American surgeon and engineer. Innovator of Forced respiration (IPPV), Fell laryngeal tube, the electric chair and Fell apparatus
Surviving Trauma RSI
Surviving Trauma RSI and Coming Out the Other Side with Laura Duggan
Rudolph Matas
Rudolph Matas (1860 – 1957) was an American vascular surgeon; prominent figure and pioneer to the fields of both surgery and anaesthesia.
Joseph O’Dwyer
Joseph O'Dwyer (1841 – 1898) was an American physician. Father of laryngeal intubation in croup; O'Dwyer plain tube; system for intralaryngeal intubation; Fell-O’Dwyer apparatus
Adrenaline in cardiac arrest
Does adrenaline require resuscitation or is adrenaline good for resuscitation? Gavin Perkins takes us through the research and findings.
ECG Case 130
Yet another ED patient with SVT -- but there is one feature on this ECG that suggests a congenital structural abnormality, can you spot it?
Missing the low hanging fruit
Rant: Missing low hanging fruit in prehospital medicine. Mike Abernethy talks to us about the importance of bystander action.
DMNB PoCUS Club
DMNB PoCUS Club from the Dalhousie Medical School, Canada. Open-access, easy to understand resource for the novice ultrasound user
John H. Blease
John Henry Blease (1906 - 1985) British inventor and anaesthetic technician. Blease-Manley ventilator; the Alfo-Blease anaesthetic machine
Code Crimson
A trauma patient has come in and they have a life threatening, non-compressible haemorrhage. We have a Code Crimson on our hands.
John T. Bowen
John Templeton Bowen (1857 – 1940) was an American dermatologist. Eponym: Bowen's disease, Bowen's disease of the vulva, Bowenoid papulosis