September 9, 2010

Instructional Ultrasound

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Today I stumbled across what looks to be the first in a series of instructional videos on Ultrasound in the emergency department from a group of ED physicians in Nambour on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. This video is a great example of an elegant teaching style, recorded and video and shared with the world – great work guys, will be following closely to see what you are up to next.

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Just when you thought you had your  EpiPen anaphylaxis patient education down pat, out new to the market is a new adrenaline autoinjector The Anapen. The Anapen has a very similar profile to the Epipen, however it has a longer shelf life. The Anapen is administered differently to the EpiPen by depressing a red button [...]

Not Backwards in going Backwards

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The newly formed Southern Hemisphere Information Technology ’4 brains’ group have covertly implemented a series of strategies within Australian hospitals which they are confident will coagulate productivity to a state of suppuration.

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Couch Medicine

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With ED overcrowding hitting record levels and budgets cuts carrying on from the last decade. Our intoxicated  patients can’t handle the concept of waiting room medicine and prefer the monitored couch approach in the comfort of their home.

Top ED iPhone Apps

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Now that pretty much everyone on the ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ team has an iPhone (some of us more belatedly than others) its time to throw out a few of our favourite Apps… In no particular order. Some more obvious than others. Some more medical than others!

Learning CPR with your iphone

I don’t own shares in the makers of this product, nor can I verify its effectiveness. However, just the idea of being able to used your iphone as a CPR coach is mind-boggling.

Action at a Distance

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“Action at a distance” is a phrase synonymous with flight-deck control physicians practicing the hands-free model of patient examination and management. Whilst cruising the interweb for evidential examples of such medical practitioners, I was lucky enough to happen upon an evolutionary tool – the Kymera Magic WAND

Online Medical Calculators

My favourite Medical Calculator – MDcalc.com has been upgraded. Always a bit tricky to keep up to date when completing a residency programme, but @grahamwalker has added some helpful new updates including: A new way to search on the site A bunch of labeling errors corrected for non-US colleagues (sorry for taking so long, rest [...]

Ever tried smoking?

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Perhaps hospitals were a little hasty in becoming “smoke-free” zones – next time I lead a code I might see if anyone volunteers to be the pipe operator for a good old-fashioned tobacco smoke enema… From Eisenberg, MS. Life in the balance: emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death. 1997; Oxford University Press. [...]

If the lights go out…

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… You could try this technique ( but hopefully you won’t need to anytime soon): [caption id="attachment_551" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Fig. 13-12. AN IMPROVISED LARYNGOSCOPE (kindly contributed by Peter Bewes) from King M, et al (1986). Primary Anaesthesia. Oxford Medical Publications."] [/caption] If the light on the laryngoscope fails, clean the contact between the blade and [...]

1298 Emergency response

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Most readers of this blog will take the emergency telephone numbers such as 911, 000, 111 or 999 for granted. These emergency numbers provide security, support and a rapid response in time-critical situations. However, most developing countries do not have the luxury of a centralized emergency telephone number and lack the ability to rapidly respond to medical emergencies.

Scope on the Go

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The innovators over at USB fever have produced a USB powered ‘timesaving’ device that will have its users on the edge of their seats – the USB Digital Endoscope . As the manufacturers state: You can use this USB Endoscope to reach the place that you cannot reach but still need to see So why [...]

Rapid Intraosseous Access EZ-IO wins Gold Medal

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The EZ-IO® product system by Vidacare® is basically a small battery-powered device with two beveled, hollow drill-tipped needles specifically designed to provide safe, controlled vascular access via the intraosseous (IO) route to patients of all ages in emergent situations when vascular access is challenging or impossible.

Timesaver STAT II

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Around the world, people are living longer and striving to lead independent, happy, and healthy lives – unfortunately the concurrent rise in chronic disease conditions such as diabetes, combined with ‘longevity’ has resulted in an exaltation of patients spending ‘quality time’ within the environs of their local emergency room and becoming acquainted with the personnel therein.

Cactus Spine Removal

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Cacti are dicotyledonous (characterized by two seed leaves) succulent perennial plants belonging to the family Cactaceae. There are approximately 2000 species and 100 genera of cacti are located primarily in the drier regions of tropical and subtropical America.