Paediatric Anaesthetic Congress of South Africa on the go in Bloemfontein from today until Sunday. Â I’m relaxing after jumping through hoops for a presentation on the airway workshop this morning. Â There is an excellent book of notes and abstracts which I will find out if I can upload when the meeting is over. Â In the meantime, I’ll post my rough notes. Â Here’s day one (not including the workshops):
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ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millenium
“Will We Say No?”
Released this month by Springer, edited by Dr David Crippen, a neurointensivist and the “Fearless Leader” of CCM-L (the International Critical Care Mailing List and discussion group) and including two chapter on ICU in South Africa, in the past, present and looking towards the future. I am particularly proud to have contributed the latter (Chapter 22).
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Some regional anaesthesia resources
Very brief post – I was giving an informal tutorial on practical aspects of regional blocks to a group of interns today, and I promised to forward them a few of my favourite online resources. I thought I’d share them here and tip my metaphorical hat to the organisations behind these great sites. In no order of preference:
- NYSORA – the New York School of Regional Anaesthesia – has a fantastic collection of articles on specific nerve blocks, guidance techniques (including ultrasound), general pointers and other links. There very well illustrated step-by-step guides to many of the blocks are brilliant adjuncts to learning new techniques and brushing up on doing a block you haven’t used in a while. I’ve never looked back after I adopted some of their tips and tricks. Highly recommended. They also sell a hard-cover book that covers lots of the material, if you prefer to read with something in your hand.
- The US National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project provides access to colour 2D and 3D images of real human anatomy, and is the next best thing to having a cadaver laboratory at your fingertips. To get the most of this data/imagery, you’ll need to use a viewer or browser of sorts. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale du Lausanne’s Visible Human Web Server allows you to do specific slices, 3D reconstructions and more. You’ll need to create a (free) login.
- For quick, three-dimensional and completely interactive study of anatomy, you have to check out the BioDigital Human site. It offers a zoomable, rotatable, layerable, disectable, labelable, x-rayable and cross-sectionable 3D anatomy model for you to explore. I have just begun to tap the advantages and of this for personal learning and teaching; my favourite so far is dissecting off one or two neck structures to show the interscalene approach to the brachial plexus and then using the search function to switch to X-ray view highlighting the phrenic nerve. Pure awesome.
I’ll try to keep on posting sites that I enjoy. Please feed back any info you think worth sharing, or pass this on!
Clinical Ultrasound – Collection of links
The basis for this list came out of a post on the Critical Care Mailing List (CCM-L), and I don’t have info on who originally created it, but it’s too good not to share. Most of these are orientated toward emergency medicine, but will be appreciated by all disciplines. (Ok, maybe not dermatology, but you never know…) I’ll try to update it when I stumble across more, so if you know of others, forward them to me or comment below. Enjoy!
- ACEP US Section – for all the needs of emergency physicians who perform US, credential others, direct US programs and much more!
- SAEM US Academy – is a community within the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. AEUS provides an international forum bringing together bedside clinician sonologists with the common goal of advancing patient care
- Bedside US and the Stanford 25 – The Stanford 25 is a list of 25 dependent physical diagnosis maneuvers to help with the physical exam and medical education, one of which is bedside US
- Society of US in Medical Education – this link takes you to the learning modules, but if you press “Home” you will see how amazing this society is for enhancing US education.
- Emergency Ultrasonography – this site is a great go-to for providing the foundation for a basic understanding of Emergency Ultrasound through lectures, modules, testing
- EMSono – a great site which is a comprehensive emergency ultrasound education website that also provides you with free teaching modules through the SonoBridge. It also provides the ACEP test for bedside US.
- iTunes Podcasts on Emergency Ultrasound – Great notes on a broad range of topics by J. Christian Fox, MD.
- SonoGuide – An excellent free online site to learn all that there is to know with regard to bedside US
- SonoSpot – Topics in bedside ultrasound
- SoundBytes – a great CME download and set of lectures !
- Ultrasound Podcast – a very fun and cool way to learn bedside US through two very funny guys!
- Ultrasound SHARE – a great site for a library for all the US videos/images you ever want to see!
- US Guided Nerve Blocks – a complete source for all you want to know in regard to US guided Nerve blocks.
- ViewSono – great video tutorials (short format case based), reviews of core ultrasound procedures in emergency medicine, critical care and regional anesthesia
- Vimeo US images and videos – an awesome site to see every US related video you’ll ever want to see!
There are quite a few smart phone apps and iTunes videos that can help while you are on the run, train, plane, or riding in the back of a Harley:
If you’re the original creator of this list, please let me know so I can credit you!
Airway presentation & page update
I have uploaded a new presentation titled ‘What I Am Thinking About When Working With Airways‘ which was created for our institution’s Anaesthetic Nurse Short Course. It’s a Prezified distillation of my thoughts, tips, tricks and tribulations; don’t expect a lot of text. The audience seemed to enjoy it – hopefully it is useful to stir some ideas. The link and a fully browsable window of the Preza are to be found on the Presentations page. Photos that aren’t mine are collected from Google. (Google is like a gum elastic bougie… your friend in times of need!)
I’ve also done some housekeeping on the page and made theme-sorted direct links immediately available. Check it out and feel free to comment.
The Prezi’s need some time to load all the images if you don’t have a fast connection. Please note that these presentations are intended for a medical audience and may contain images some individuals could find disturbing.