This blog is meant to review some of the resources that helped me with this “hands-off” learning experience. There is no substitute for hands-on practice with ultrasound, but these sites were still an invaluable resource to my pandemic home ultrasound rotation…
Read MoreFormal Emergency Medicine training in the majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is still in early stages of development. At the same time Emergency Centre (EC) mortality in LMICs is high, with a meta-analysis demonstrating a median mortality prevalence of 1.8%. Although there are multi-factorial reasons for this high mortality rate, the authors state a lack of a robust formally trained Emergency Medicine workforce is one of the proposed problems…
Read MoreA 7 year-old girl presents after falling off a jungle gym. She has a visible deformity of the left humerus and wrist. She won’t let the nurse get close enough for a blow-dart, let alone an IV, and your attending slaps the IO kit out of your hands as you desperately try to boost your procedure numbers. She needs pain relief. Now what?
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