Free educational blog for rural GP and proceduralists
It is ladies month here still – and today we are going to get into one of the the big Emergency scenarios of Women’s health. Imagine this: Its a quiet night shift – you are contemplating a third cuppa when the triage nurse rolls in with a young woman on a wheelchair. Your powers of [...]
One of my jobs is acting as a supervisor / mentor to the next generation of doctors – medical students in the final phases of their training. Recently one of my students (Anton Lavell) posed an ethical question – I think I know what my “position” is on this question. But, I want to know [...]
Traumatic fluid resuscitation. This is one area of Emergency medicine where the dogma is pretty entrenched and the evidence has moved on quite a bit in the last 10 years. It is a poorly understood area of practice – probably because it has gone thorugh several permutations of name and ideology in recent history – [...]
This is my first Clinical Case on the podcast. So hope you like the format – it is a bit mixed media. Here is what I want you to do – first listen to the podcast below, take your time to think it over and then give me your opinion. Either write a comment on [...]
I recently caught up with my S.A. mate Dr Tim Leeuwenberg (KI-Docs.com) who is the Prof. of all things airway in the GP realm. Tim has recently published an audit of Aussie rural GPs and their access to airway gear, knowledge and practice when it come to emergency airway management. Tim is a really clear [...]
