Originally posted on Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds:
Attributed to some joker on Twitter Hi folks in this months journal reading, more on cricoid pressure is to be found! What you say?!! Didnt cricoid pressure get removed from our collective RSI/emergency airway management mindset?! WELL…
Case Presenting You are asked to briefly present the patient case you have just see on the ward round. The consultant insists that you start with a concise summary of the patient’s care. Presenting cases is both nerve inducing and challenging – but we have to start some where. A snappy opening statement and summary not … More Basic Presentation Skills for Medical Students
Download Printable PDF A Clinical Scenario A 70-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with an episode of collapse at the supermarket. A bystander calls an ambulance and by the arrival of paramedics a few mins later the patient is lucid and responsive. She is found to be Hypotensive (91/50), Febrile (38.9 degrees), Tachycardic … More Show Me The Albumin
SYNCOPE PDF HANDOUT – CLICK HERE Syncope in the Emergency Department (ED) Introduction Syncope is common accounting for about 1 in 50 of Emergency Department (ED) presentations. It is recurrent in 30% of patients and is characterised by a ‘Brief loss of consciousness that resolves without intervention’. Syncope is derived from Greek “syn” – with and … More Collapse and Syncope
PRINTABLE HANDOUT PDF DOWNLOAD Automated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Mechanical CPR Good quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may improve cardiac and neurologic outcomes following cardiac arrest and this can theoretically be facilitated by various Mechanical CPR Devices that we will look at in this discussion. Early CPR has been associated with increased survival and is therefore very important … More Push my Buttons – Mechanical CPR
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