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Category Archives: critical care

The decision to intubate – the follow up

3 Jul

[Image Wikipedia Commons] A few days ago I posted a few cases to try and elicit the reasoning behind why we intubate people. Check out the comments to get a feel for what people were saying. Here’s some follow up. Though … Read More »

critical care, decision making decision making, FOAMed, ICU, intubation 1 Comment

The decision to intubate

22 Jun

[Image Wikipedia Commons] [This has been floating about as a draft post here for ages, but Cliff has finally inspired me to put it out there and have the discussion following his recent post on The tongue-in-cheek non-intubation check list] This is … Read More »

critical care, decision making critical care, decision making, FOAMed, ICU, intubation 15 Comments

Stop putting IV cannulae in the 2nd ICS for tension PTX

15 Nov

Though I suspect this is old news by now, I’ve just read a couple of papers on it and thought I’d share my thoughts. They’re both by the very smart and talented Kenji Inaba. Question where should we put a … Read More »

critical care chest drain, kenji inaba, tension pneumothorax, trauma 29 Comments

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