Clinical Case 069: Can’t Intubate, can ventilate …. for now
I always thought that Beaker would be the toughest Muppet to intubate. Sure he’s skinny, but a non-existent thyro-mental gap and that big nose will...
Acute Pain Targets
This post has been inspired by an excellent article by @anaestricks (Dr. Gavin Doolan http://anaestricks.tumblr.com ) entitled Acute Pain Targets. Here Gavin drew a simple diagram of...
Clinical Case 068: Surviving sepsis. Serial scans for super-sick sheila
My newly arrived UK RMO Dr Laura Castle and I managed a sick lady today and we used the bedside ultrasound to assist us in...
Clinical case 067: awake intubation procrastination.
Had an interesting case this week. A middle-aged woman who had developed a slowly growing submandibular swelling over a week and was now not r...
Clinical Case 066: Things that go Bump in the Night
OK readers. It has been a while since I gave you all the chance to cover yourselves in glory and show off your super-generalist diagnostic...