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ETM Podcast Episode 1 – Minh Le Cong – Trauma Airway (part 1)

This is the very first episode of the Emergency Trauma Management Podcast, created for those who manage trauma in the Emergency Department.  In our first episode we are very lucky to have had the chance to interview airway guru and all around nice guy, Minh Le Cong.  Minh runs the fantastic Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine (PHARM) blog and podcast, and has a wealth of experience in trauma airway management.  He also helps run the RFDS Prehospital Anaesthesia & Airway Management Course.  In this episode, we talk about intubation in the head-injured patient, Minh’s favourite drug, Ketamine, dealing with cervical spine immobilisation and airway management, and some really great tips on managing the airway in patients with actual spinal injury.

Stay tuned for part 2, with more great airway pearls from Minh. If you enjoy the podcast, leave us a comment below (by clicking on “Comments”).

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https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/emergency-trauma-management/id634332324

Human Factors In Healthcare at ResusRoom.Mx

Head over to the excellent ResusRoom.mx blog, where Andy B has put up an incredibly insightful post based on the BBC's "How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery" production, with Dr Kevin Fong who was the presenter from another production named Extreme A&E. 

BBC iPlayer link for UK viewers

Enter The Vortex!

 

It was my pleasure recently to be involved in a podcast over at Minh's PHARM  alongside Dr Nicholas Chrimes (consultant anaesthetist at Monash Hospital), and Dr Peter Fritz (emergency physician & retrieval specialist) on the topic of difficult airways. Traditionally, difficult airway algorithms are linear, and quite complex - something that may have limited utility in a high stress difficult airway situation. 

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ETM Course - Cross posted from EDExam

Well the cat is pretty much out of the bag, (thanks to Minh over at the PHARM Podcast) the reason my posts on EDExam have slowed down a bit is because I've been spending nearly all of my spare time in the last 9 months working on a new project. Utilising the results from our Trauma Education Needs Survey, (thanks to all who participated), Amit Maini (from www.edtcc.com) and I have created a new Emergency focused trauma course, called the Emergency Trauma Management Course (ETM Course). 

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McGrath MAC Video Laryngoscope

I love direct laryngoscopy (DL); it’s such a satisfying technique and one that you usually only get to perform when it'll really make a difference to the patient (in ED). So when I first heard about videolaryngoscopes (VL) I was a little sad. I felt that all those years learning how to do DL, often with heart racing, would now be wasted.

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