Free educational blog for rural GP and proceduralists
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 – [...]
In this episode I catch up with Dr Sebastian Runbinzstein-Dunlop, a fellow Broome Doc who has an interest in Eye stuff. Seb is rare in that he has actually been in a remote situation where he has done decompressive lateral canthotomy to save an eye. So here we chat about the types of scenarios, symptoms [...]
You might be aware that the boys over at Ultrasound Podcast have developed an app called “1-Minute US”. It is pretty cool, but lets face it – 1 minute, it’s a bit tacky. I know that Broome docs readers are really much more sophisticated than that, so I have produced a whole new concept : [...]
This is it! The first BroomeDocs podcast. It is a new feature to the Broome Docs site and I thought I would go back and look at an old topic for my first podcast. C-spine trauma management in a small town is an area that really illustrates the type of critical decision-making rural docs are [...]
Had a great day doing all sorts of teaching, clinical conundrums and great medicine. Started with septic joints, gout and pus, ended with a DC cardioversion and more pus! Highlight of the day though was a chat I had over the ether with 3 other Australian Docs: Minh le Cong (PHARM), Michelle Johnson (LITFL) and [...]
