I’ve spent the last few days in Adelaide, SA at the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) annual scientific meeting.  ANZICS is known throughout the acute medicine community […]

Thinks to twitter buddies @keeweedoc and @paramedickiwi for inspiring me to write this. Cardiac arrest is one of the more common indications for endotracheal intubation, indeed for many health professionals, […]

Tension pneumothorax is a not-uncommon and much feared complication of major trauma.  Anyone who looks after trauma patients in the course of their clinical practice must consider the possibility of […]

What do a young man intubated for respiratory arrest and and a young woman with acute liver failure have in common?  Other than possibly being neighbours in an ICU, you […]

I’ve just returned from this great meeting for St. Ambulance volunteers in the Blue Mountains.  Lots of talks relevant to EMS and event medicine providers.  I gave a talk on […]

Here’s an article I wrote last year for the popular EMS journal/magazine JEMS. http://www.jems.com/behind-the-mask Or, if you’d prefer a downloadable online pdf format… http://jems.epubxp.com/i/34750 And… Here’s the presentation I occasionally […]

Here’s a Prezi I use to teach the basic concepts of shock to medical students on their ICU rotation.  It would also be suitable for student paramedics and nurses.  For […]