May 2018

Build your own SALAD sim

1 Comment / Airway, Anaesthesia / Tim Leeuwenburg

So ever since an online collaboration with James Du Canto and others in the FOAMed community, I’ve been refining the SALAD sim trainer For those not ‘in the know’ the SALAD technique is designed to manage intubation of the trachea in the face of massive airway contamination e.g. haematemesis or regurgitation of stomach contents Not […]

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Paralysed by indecision

1 Comment / cardiac arrest, education, Emergency, FOAMed, Training / Tim Leeuwenburg

One of the defining skills of being a doctor is the need to make decisions, sometimes with limited information and under significant time pressure. As I’ve matured in my career, I’ve realised that most of what I was taught in medical school was just plain wrong. The ongoing challenge has been to identify WHICh bits

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