Kid presenting with blue colored mouth? Consider button battery ingestion as some now have saliva activated dye coatings. energizer.com/3in1childshiel…

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You will never regret the time you spend learning how to have difficult conversations

Hyperkalaemia: using Lokelma rather than insulin & dextrose for K+ 6.0-6.5 without ECG changes prevents a whole lot of insulin/dextrose related hypos & associated harm. Clinical Medicine (ClinMed) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Didn’t even know this was a thing Should we be doing this for ?gastro malignancies when we CT Abdo ?

Dame Elaine Inglesby-Burke DL I think its really difficult in very big organisations but keep asking! Also a big red flag is sickness and turnover data but boards rarely look at it as safety data

Today is one of those days where I walked out of the hospital and felt like I was really grateful, and proud of being able to practice this art.

It takes >3-4 weeks of steroids (@ any dose >5 mg pred/d) to pose risk of adrenal insufficiency – Hence, Endocrine Society Guideline says short-term glucocorticoid therapy of <3-4 wks, irrespective of dose, DOES NOT require GC tapering buff.ly/4gggMq6

"Non-invasive blood pressure measurements are often inaccurate in the #prehospital #criticalcare setting" Physiological extremes & transport conditions (e.g. vibration) can affect oscillometric cuff devices. But by how much? Read now on #SJTREM: sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #EMS

The leading causes of perinatal trauma (psychological). Many of these factors may be present in women who access the ambulance service. How can we help reduce the impact of these factors as health professionals responding to a 999 call? #prehospmatneo

If you need a little boost this Wednesday morning, I just came across a study that showed dogs cry tears of joy when they're reunited with their owners. cell.com/current-biolog…

The yellow shows innervation of the anterior branch of the medial cutaneous nerve...🤯 What we thought was saphenous. In the world of regional anesthesia and pain medicine, frequently something I think I know well, changes. The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know much.

New Zealand has just named our second ever Māori queen in the eight-dynasty reign of the Kiingitanga movement, and she’s 27!!!! Meet Ngā Wai hono i te pō 𓆩♡𓆪

Hearing about the TARN data from the Republic of Ireland from Prof Connor Deasy Not dissimilar to everywhere else with 62% of the cases being a fall from <2metres Trauma Care Charity UK Trauma Care Ireland

I was absolutely flabbergasted at this amazing poster presentation. Facial plane blocks might not work due to fast injection and kinetic energy making turbulation and no spread. #ESRA2024 ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia Friendrich Lirsch 👏🏻👍🏻

How many of these Pharmacology factlets do you already know? I've collated links to resources for more information on each topic. You'll find them in the matching blog post lindadykes.org/blog, or download the PDF (p2 has clickable links) lindadykes.org/downloads #FOAMed

EMCrit 383 brings on Michael I. Prats to discuss the Ultrasound Hierarchy of Needs during Cardiac Arrest. POCUS Pulse Checks Differential Dx and so much more [#FOAMed] emcrit.org/383

Important! INR measures the function of a limited number of *some* clotting fibrinogen, II, VII, IX, X NOT anticoagulants like protein C and S That's how patients with cirrhosis can have high INR but still be hypercoagulable

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