Intensivists and trainee intensivists of the world, brace yourselves. You’re about to re-live a telephone conversation that you have nightly and that makes your blood boil every time…. Ring, Ring… […]
Leo Cullum, The New Yorker. I’m currently taking some time out of the hustle-bustle of the busy ICU to undertake a bit of an elective period in palliative medicine. So […]
After some recent heated discussions, I thought I’d ask you – the small slice of the critical care community who have a bit of interest in what I have to […]
A while back I asked you what drugs you use to induce anaesthesia in critically ill patients. Here are the results. You can see that about 1/4 of you are […]
While I prepare my next post after a long absence, here’s a documentary from PBS that should be compulsory viewing for any clinician involved in critical care. It examines the interface […]
I recently had a Facebook conversation with a colleague of mine, emergency medicine registrar Matthew Oliver about post intubation sedation with propofol and I thought it was was worth sharing […]
I’m a big fan of checklists, and I think they’re seriously under-utilised in medicine. Anyone who’s had anything to do with aviation knows that pilots rely on checklists to ensure […]
I’ve just had a most enjoyable day wasting a lot of time while watching some pretty amazing videos on youtube. I’m a big fan of medical history, particularly the history […]
How apt that this morning I watched one of my favourite episodes of “The Simpsons,” “King-Size Homer” from series 7, in which Homer gains 60 Lbs in order to reach […]
From archbronconeumol.org You are the ICU registrar in a small teaching hospital. Its 0300 and you get a panicked call from ED. The nurse on the end of the phone […]
