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Essential Retrieval Medicine Toolkit

Australian retrieval medicine guru and Flying Doctor Dr Minh Le Cong sent me a copy of the ‘Prehospital Anaesthesia and Airway management Syllabus 2012′ that he’d authored, a thorough and...

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A big brain saves a little one

Something I’ve been teaching for years – but never actually done – has been described in a case report from Oman. A 2 year old child suffered a respiratory arrest due to an inhaled foreign body, which...

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Training in prehospital and retrieval medicine

I’ve been too busy to blog literature updates for a couple of weeks since I and my colleagues have been flat out running a two week training course in prehospital and retrieval medicine. Our Helicopter...

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Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

I am stunned by the beauty and brilliance of this video by Spanish filmmaker Cristóbal Vila – Inspirations: A Short Film Celebrating the Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher. M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was the...

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The intubator’s creed

Flying doctor and airway fanatic Minh Le Cong sent me this poem. It’s based on the Rifleman’s creed of the United States Marine Corps. It reminded me a bit of my wedding in 2005, when my pre-hospital...

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Not a pin cushion

This is the daughter of my friend. Avery is only seven months old and has survived a critical illness and is thankfully now fully recovered. Her Dad has nothing but praise for the medical and nursing...

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Confidential stuff – in hospital cardiac arrests

A new report describes room for improvement in the care of cardiac arrest patients in hospital1. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) aimed to describe variability...

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An inspiring demonstration of spirit

I can’t imagine what it was like to go through what Fred Ettish went through. I remember being stunned at the overwhelming failure of his Karate in one of the early UFC fights in the mid-nineties, and...

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Dogmalysis

I made up a word a while ago: “dogmalysis”. It refers to the dissolution of authoritative tenets held as established opinion without adequate grounds. DOGMA: something held as an established opinion; a...

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Save a life by watching telly?

If you’re in the United Kingdom on Thursday 21st March please consider watching BBC’s Horizon program at 9pm on BBC2. I’m in Australia so I’ll miss it, but I’m moved by the whole background to this...

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Beherrschen die Reanimation

The whole purpose behind my career and this blog is to save life. Like most emergency physicians I don’t see a huge number of resuscitation patients myself in a given week, so my best hope in making a...

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