Do you know if you really own the airway?

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Toby Fogg follows up his interview with Minh Le Cong with a guest post about his Australia and New Zealand ED Airway Registry project. Get involved!

Emergency Medicine Australasia

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New Series: Short editorial reviews from Emergency Medicine Australasia which publishes peer-reviewed articles, reports, reviews and opinions

Retrievals: Too sick, crazy, big, or little to stay here!

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Rick Abbott shares his always unique thoughts on retrievals, aka transfers in the big country to the North-East. As always, there’s plenty of food for thought.

Come to Perth in June!

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Check out the itinerary for the upcoming Annual Scientific Meeting of the Western Australia branch of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine…

EMA April 2012

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Short editorial comments on articles from Vol. 24 Issue 2 of Emergency Medicine Australasia published online in April 2012.

Airway Registry & Checklists in Audio

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All you airway freaks are going to love this one… Own the Airway Audio is back with Minh talking to Royal North Shore’s Toby Fogg about airway registries, checklists and saving the world one emergency intubation at a time!

The Hazards of Internet Shopping

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A 62 yo lady presents to the ER after opening a package containing a coat bought online from Uzbekistan. After trying it on, she immediately feels pain in her left hand. She shakes the coat, and out crawls…

Overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded… It’s just not cricket

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Rick Abbott wonders why ERs across the world seem to have a few things in common: they’re almost all overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded…. What can be done about it? It’s just not cricket!

Lifestyle modification and multiple sclerosis

George Jelinek

Changing the paradigm of progressive deterioration with multiple sclerosis. An Australian longitudinal cohort study reports remarkable improvements with lifestyle change