Cross-pollination: Paeds procedural sedation
One of the benefits of being a generalist, a doc who tries to do a bit of everything is that from time to time I...
Clinical Case 072: The Difficult Airway that Wasn’t
Today I have another Airway case for you from Dr James DuCanto, M.D. Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Here is the case...
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...
Difficult intubation deliberation
Last week I posted on a tricky airway requiring AFOI (awake fibre-optic intubation) – see Awake Intubation Procrastination. I got a bit of correspondence from...
Course Review: Advanced Airway Management Course Refresher
I am fresh from the Advanced Airway Management Refresher Course in Melbourne last week. It was an excellent educational event and I couldn’t recommend it...