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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ve been a bit busy across at sydneyhems.com for a while, but while I’m writing my next little bit, here’s a link to the good people at jems.com who have […]

I’ve been on holiday and haven’t been able to think about a good topic to write about.  But I’ve come up with a doozy.  Just to spread the love and […]