Tasty Morsels of EM 004

I keep a little, ever-expanding note on my phone where I jot down little morsels of goodness that I pick up while listening to or reading one of the many excellent sites/podcasts in the useful resource section.

I’ll try and transfer them here for your enlightenment.

I picked this up from this Joe Lex talk.

• perfs need cleaned and left alone
• traumatic perfs need ENT referral
• in epistaxis control the bleeding then cauterise that means epi and lidocaine in nose and wait for 5 mins
• if packing remember to give antibiotics for toxic shock