March 2014

You gotta have love…

I was 14 when I nearly considered deliberate defenestration. It’s probably the closest I’ve ever been to suicide, but the memory of the angst that made me contemplate this action is still vivid. The Headmaster had asked each of the 30 pupils in our class to give a talk. I cannot even remember the details […]

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Should Real Airway Experts Use Checklists?

The smaccGOLD debate ‘should real airway experts use checklists‘ in March 2014 between RFDS powerhouse Dr Minh le Cong (against) and myself (in favour) started some nine months prior to the actual event, with an almost daily exchange of trash talk on the topic via the wonderful medium of Twitter.     You can download

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Levitan Airway Workshop

So as a pre-smaccGOLD prelude, I was able to join the Levitan Airway course held in Sydney at the Royal North Shore simulation lab run by John Vassilliadis and team. I’ve been to this sim centre before, for both the Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises course and as adjunct to the Rural Doctors NSW conference.

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