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!

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.

It costs what?

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Rick Abbot, our ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’, dives into the murky quagmire of medical costs in the United States and makes a comparison with what he experienced in Australia. At least he tries to…

The Registrar sits at the desk registering patients. Right?

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Rick Abbot provides the ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’ perspective on emergency medicine training in Australia and the United States. He also figures out the difference between a resident and a registrar…

Looking back at ‘Educating For Our Future’

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Bish Rajapakse looks back through a trainee’s eyes at the 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. The theme was ‘Educating for our Future”.

Friday inspiration 002

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The Ship Song Project is a reworking of Cave’s original work with individual lines sung/performed by the most prominent acts to feature at the Sydney Opera House over 2010/2011.

Planes, Pregnancy and Bleeding

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A real case highlighting the challenges of managing the critically ill obstetric patient in remote regions of Australia.

Samson and Sanuk New Toys

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Juggling work commitments, family life and writing can be tricky. However, new vigour and inspiration has been instilled with the arrival of some geeky new toys from Samson and Sanuk Australia.

ED.EXAM

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Introducing ED.EXAM: a free online forum and collection of resources for emergency medicine trainees studying for the ACEM Part 2 exams.