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Behind the Mask

September 26, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

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 […]

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Spike-waves

EEG is better then SSEP for prognostication at 24 hours in patients cooled post cardiac arrest

September 25, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

Interesting study from the Netherlands in this months CCM.  Patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest (regardless of etiology or location) had continuous electroencephalogram (EEG) and daily somatosensory evoked […]

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Journal Club
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Intensivists achieve better outcomes for less money. Surprise!

September 24, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

I can’t even begin to fathom the health system in the USA. But one thing I do know is that in many hospitals critically ill patients in ICU aren’t looked […]

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SMACC

SMACC!

September 17, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

I know where I’ll be from the 11th to the 13th of March 2013, Sydney!  To be fair I would probably have been in Sydney anyway because I live here.  […]

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Social MEDia
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Trauma Resuscitation in the ’80s!

September 16, 2012by expensivecare 4 Comments

Here’s a nostalgia evoking clip showing the old resus room in Auckland Public (now Auckland City) Hospital (hands up who remembers them!)  Note the absence of gloves, the presence of […]

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Procrastination
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The Truth Will Set You free, but first it will piss you off.

September 16, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

Familiar territory to all of us no doubt.  Australian intensivist Peter Saul talks about dying in the 21st century.

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End of Life, Inspiration
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Shock Prezi

September 16, 2012by expensivecare Leave a comment

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 […]

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