Rare Life-Threatening Emergencies. A Can’t Intubate Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) emergency is every healthcare provider’s (HCP) anxiety nightmare. Whether you induced the patient (and caused this) or just happened upon the situation, whether CICO is obvious, or has been slow to develop… definitive management must now occur. After you attempt a supraglottic device and ensure paralysis,…
ECMO is a life-saving intervention for critically ill patients, but patients describe a recovery period that can take months to years.
Exercise regularly. We know that this is important for our physical health but what about the other benefits? Building and maintaining resilience? Improving mental performance? Taking care of your brain over time? What is the difference between light exercise, vigorous exercise and movement on an ongoing basis? Share this library of resources with anyone you…
Those of us looking after kids know that making confronting situations better for those kids is one our biggest challenges. A kid’s experience of a procedure in hospital is not just about that particular procedure. It colours all their future interactions with health professionals and can impact on their behaviour outside health care settings. Virtual…
In the ER, we are taught to turn towards the pain of others. We are not given as deliberate advice on how to care for ourselves despite the adversity we see, and the inevitability of being hurt by it. If our role is, at least in part, to steward health towards others, we defy its…
Salim and Ken go toe-to-toe debating some hot topics in critical care. They take on mechanical CPR, adrenaline for out of hospital cardiac arrest, stroke ambulances and 1st pass with a bougie. Fun and informative.
Uncertainty at the centre of sepsis by Hallie Prescott Sepsis is a common and deadly condition, but diagnosis in not always knowable in real-time. The optimal treatment during times of diagnostic uncertainty differs across patients. Despite this reality, sepsis performance is uniformly assessed and reported for a population knowable only in retrospect—the patients ultimately judged…
Learn how to say no, kindly, to people. Saying no to your colleagues, friends, family and co-workers can be hard. For people in the health care industry, this is potentially even harder. But by saying yes, you are also saying no to everything and everyone else. Being able to say no, kindly, is a strength.…
Mulinda shares how setting up an emergency department at a public tertiary hospital, resulted in improving a primary healthcare system The performance of a health system can affect the community’s health seeking behaviours. Insight into how improving patient care can assist with creating efficient and effective emergency care will be shared.
An overview of causes of surgical vomiting in the neonate. This includes malrotation-volvulus, intestinal atresias, necrotising enterocolitis.
