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’.
Kids, Cuts and Clinical Care
September 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A preview of Management Of Wounds In The Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, 12(9).
Nasal foreign body, ketamine and laryngospasm
May 11, 2010 By 6 Comments
A case-based Q-and-A on procedural sedation using ketamine to remove a button battery from a child’s nose. What would you do? What if laryngospasm occurs?
Chloral hydrate overdose
October 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A 25 year-old woman with a history of depression was found by her flatmate. An empty 200mL bottle of chloral hydrate was present at the scene. She arrived at your emergency department with the following vital signs…
Code Black
March 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
“Code Black” in Cubicle 23. The doctor stood impassively before the wildly agitated “speeding” patient. She was ranting and gesticulating aggressively, with eyes wide and teeth flashing. Unsurprisingly, words alone did nothing to calm her down. The doctor, in a matter-of-fact tone, told her that if she didn’t cooperate she would be sedated against her [...]
