Safety is paramount in anaesthesia, wherever it is being performed (in theatre, in ED or at the roadside). Many of the non-anaesthetists joke about the apparent simplicity of induction agents in an RSI, without appreciating the nuances. RSI is easy! inject the big syringe first – induction then the little syringe – paralysis By far the […]
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It’s no secret that I am concerned with management of the difficult airway, especially as pertains to the rural/remote/austere context. This may be either as a rural GP providing anaesthesia in the Operating Theatre, in the Emergency Department or at the roadside. Whilst many of us learn and regularly upskill in anaesthesia via the comfortable environment of
DAS 2015: Ditch the FastTrach? Read More »
It was a few years ago that I blogged about the death of the medical conference. I had been to a fairly hum drum rural medicine conference and felt significantly underwhelmed with both the quality of presenters, the educational programme and the lack of vision for the future. Read about the experience here. Since then
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