With the current impact of the COVID-19 pandemic being felt around the world, there has been an explosion of ingenuity…

Picture this – you are managing a patient who looks like shit, has a heart rate of 155 and a…

  This is Betio hospital…one of 2 main hospitals in Tarawa, the capital of island nation of Kiribati. I was…

The therapeutic use of distraction is one of the most remarkable skills a critical care nurse can use when caring…

Defibrillation is one of the cornerstones of effective resuscitation following cardiac arrest. The ability to reorganise a lethal arrhythmia into…

While there are lots of interesting things to read on the Internet, only a few have the potential to help…

Urinary catheters are useful for a wide variety of reasons and in most circumstances are relatively straight forward to insert.…

This picture is the most accurate summation of this topic I have ever seen (in the form of interpretive Zoidberg)…

While many factors impact our ability to deliver effective care to our patients, positioning is one of the simplest, but…

While there are plenty of overtly abnormal ECG patterns that are universally recognized as indicators of impending trouble – there…