A recent supervisors workshop has made me think about how I structure teachjng sessions – often a medical student or registrar will come along and say ‘teach me something’ – My teaching is often shaped by what I am interested in, by events that have happened recently or by the desire to finish teaching ASAP […]
Trainee questions? Flip “ASK” into “KSA” Read More »
End-tidal CO2 is increasingly becoming used outside of the Operating Theatre and it is prudent for the rural doctor to have an appreciation of what it is, how to measure it, when to measure it and it’s utility in common scenarios. “you get A, B & C in a single squiggly line” Casey Parker, BroomeDocs.com
So much hot gas – ETCO2 for non-anaesthetists Read More »
Readers of the KIdocs.org blog will be aware of my feelings re: courses for rural doctors. There are a plethora of ‘alphabet soup’ or ‘merit badge’ courses out there for entry-level as a rural registrar or doctor – ALS, APLS, ALSO, ATLS(EMST) etc. As career progresses, we are required to maintain continuing professional development. Most
Last year I was amazed to discover that over 50% of my rural GP-anaesthetic colleagues stated that they had been called out to some form of prehospital incident in the previous 12 months. I think we need to be very clear that the pre-hospital environment is VERY different to that of the resus bay or ED,
Rural Docs ‘Value Adding’ Pre-Hospital? Read More »
One of the most useful things for me in the past two years has been using FOAMed to change my practice. As a rural doctor, my expertise intersects spheres of primary care, emergency medicine, resuscitation, obstetrics and anaesthesia. I don’t hold out to be an expert in any of these per se – indeed, the expertise
Should I Cool the Cardiac Arrest Patient? Read More »