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.

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!

Befriend the bougie!

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John McGill and HQMEDED present a couple of fantastic videos on how to best use the bougie for emergency intubation (hat tip to EMCrit).

Awake Intubation in Audio

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The second edition of Minh Le Cong’s airway management podcast is here. Minh talks to Seth Trueger, a chief resident and airway padawan of EMCrit’s Scott Weingart, about his experience with awake intubation in the ED. Essential listening if you’re thinking about introducing this fantastic technique into your own practice.

Where’s the ETT?… No devices, no monitors

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Can you solve this riddle posed by an ‘old school’ anaesthetist?

What is the question?

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What single question unlocks the mystery of how a patient with hypokalemia had a cardiac arrest 30 minutes after being treated during retrieval?

Retrieval of the Disturbed Patient

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Minh Le Cong comes to us from an aircraft hangar somewhere in North Queensland with a video slidecast version of his talk on the ‘Retrieval of the Disturbed Patient’.

CICM SAQ 2010.2 Q7

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Aeromedical transport of the critically ill paitent.

Friday Frontline Inspiration 015

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Shot on board with the paramedics of Pretoria and Johannesburg, TELL ME AND I WILL FORGET illuminates the new social challenges in South Africa, 15 years after the end of its oppressive Apartheid era.

Working in the Sky

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Can you resist the urge to apply for a job with Sydney HEMS after watching this video?