Old School/New School – Updating Classic RSI
Respect for the classics doesn’t mean being stuck with them. Here’s a refresher on why you might not want to do RSI like they used to by Dr Andrew Weatherall Everything in […]
Category Archives: Airway
A Real World Update on MPS – Podcast #4
Back to a podcast already. This time there is a brand new guest, the very excellent Dr Gail Wong. Gail works at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead but also spent a […]
Airway Knowledge Doesn’t Auto-Update
Well that was a bit of a gap. A quick post on the return about something we all know we know but could do with unknowing – simple stuff on the […]
Better Takeaway Options for Kids
This post is the written version of a talk by Dr Andrew Weatherall for the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists Congress 2017 in Johannesburg. The organising committee extended the invitation […]
Fresh Air
Airway management is just a little bit different in kids. Sometimes it is tough. So wouldn’t you like more time to sort it out? Andrew Weatherall has a quick look at an […]
Slaying Different Dragons – A Quest
A little while ago Dr Andrew Weatherall was asked to give a talk on the difficult paediatric airway. The audience was a variety of emergency medicine doctors, nursing staff and allied […]
Blunt Blows to Small Necks
It might not be that common but it would definitely be memorable. Paediatric airway trauma would make us all sweat. Here’s some quick thoughts from Dr Andrew Weatherall after working through […]
Filling the Gap
Everyone’s got a theory about what to do in the CICO emergency. Unless the CICO situation is all about kids. Andrew Weatherall goes through a recent review on this arising from the […]
Sharing and Skinning Furry Things
If people giving anaesthetics are still using a bunch of different techniques, it’s fair to assume that all those options have their own pros and cons. You could argue that’s true for […]
Straight Talk about Blades and Kids
Some of the more popular posts on this site have been the ones where we vox pop paediatric anaesthetists for their top tips on a topic. The brief is easy: what are […]
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