Mobile devices have become synonymous with not only our personal lives and downtime (wherever that can be found) but also…
Sealed Supraglottic Airways – A concept to improve the safety of laryngeal mask airways amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
With the current impact of the COVID-19 pandemic being felt around the world, there has been an explosion of ingenuity…
NIBPWTF
Picture this – you are managing a patient who looks like shit, has a heart rate of 155 and a…
The Boy from Betio
This is Betio hospital…one of 2 main hospitals in Tarawa, the capital of island nation of Kiribati. I was…
Distracting Sick Kids (…With cheap party tricks)
The therapeutic use of distraction is one of the most remarkable skills a critical care nurse can use when caring…
Let’s talk about COACHED baby
Defibrillation is one of the cornerstones of effective resuscitation following cardiac arrest. The ability to reorganise a lethal arrhythmia into…
Healing Hands (…only CPR) – A valuable rescue tool for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
While there are lots of interesting things to read on the Internet, only a few have the potential to help…
Hooray for Coude (…tip catheters)
Urinary catheters are useful for a wide variety of reasons and in most circumstances are relatively straight forward to insert.…
Feeling Pulses in Cardiac Arrest
This picture is the most accurate summation of this topic I have ever seen (in the form of interpretive Zoidberg)…
The Crunch
While many factors impact our ability to deliver effective care to our patients, positioning is one of the simplest, but…