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Category Archives: Challenging Things

Button Holes

November 10, 2019by songsorstories 1 Comment

This is a written version of a talk requested for PACSA 2019 in Johannesburg. It covers the horror show that is button battery ingestion and the tracheo-oesophageal fistulae that can result. […]

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Challenging Things, Conference Bits

Making New Boxes – Podcast #7

October 3, 2018by songsorstories 1 Comment

It’s been a bit since a post and even longer since a podcast. Time to catch up maybe.  This podcast is a recorded version of a talk given at the Spring […]

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Challenging Things, Conference Bits, Podcast

A Very Quick Link

December 31, 2017by songsorstories Leave a comment

A quick note from Andrew W.. While there’s usually a bit of downtime on the site posts this year to allow a bit of a refresh, I’ll put up something […]

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Challenging Things, Conference Bits

When the GA doesn’t do the job – Awareness and Kids

December 10, 2017by songsorstories 1 Comment

The core job when you reach for general anaesthesia is to provide a general lack of awareness. So what about when it doesn’t work? The person making the coffee sort of […]

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Challenging Things, Clinical Practice

A Real World Update on MPS – Podcast #4

June 22, 2017by songsorstories Leave a comment

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 […]

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Airway, Challenging Things, Podcast

A Weight on the Chest – Anterior Mediastinal Mass

December 12, 2016by songsorstories 1 Comment

There are a few conditions which make the most experienced paeds anaesthetists take a deep breath in. Anterior mediastinal mass is right up there. Here’s a quick trawl through stuff that’s out […]

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Challenging Things, Oncology

The Opposite of What We Do

April 16, 2016by songsorstories 2 Comments

Almost everything we do is about efficiency. What about the patients whose version of efficiency is actually to be less efficient? Andrew Weatherall writes a thing here about kids whose […]

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Challenging Things, Clinical Practice

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