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Extraglottic airway device review

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Sunday, January 19, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Back when I started up the ASMMR and put out a newsletter, I wrote a piece on the range of airway devices available, from simple oropharyngeal airways to endotracheal intubation (You can read it here: ASMMR Vol 1, Issue 3, July 2009). Recently I came across a review article in Anaesthesia & Analgesia devoted just to extraglottic airways (also known as supraglottic airways, though there is some semantics involved) and it makes a good ...
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Pre-hospital intubation using ultrasound - What, huh?

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, November 16, 2012

OK, so we all love ultrasound; who doesn't? I remember a time when ultrasound was a diagnostic utility that gave medical school physics lecturers something to talk about and later on, a modality that lived somewhere at the back of a dark corner of the radiology department, crooned over by pale-faced, moon-eyed individuals. In the past couple of years, it is a modality that has arisen phoenix-like and has become almost the next Seldinge...
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Ketamine in trauma and pre-hospital medicine

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Sunday, July 22, 2012

Ketamine seems to be one of those divisive drugs that some practicioners really love using (professionally of course), some seem to despise and some are put off by the scare stories that permeate the textbooks. The preservation of airway reflexes and comparative haemodynamic stability draws favour, while the age-associated emergence phenomenon, increase in ICP and incidence of laryngospasm draws fire.

From a practical point of view, it is a...
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