Hey SOCMOBBERS, The ASA now recommends that all procedural sedations (not conscious sedations!) be done with quantitative waveform capnography. While I understand it’s not feasible in some places, capnography is a hugely valuable tool, and detects apnea long before the pulse ox reading drops. Where I work, there are no fancy nasal prongs or face […]
SOCMOB How to: Make your own Cricothyrotomy Trainer
Who has done a cricothyrotomy? Who thinks they would be comfortable doing a cric if asked? Without having a code brown first? Though I have done a few tracheostomies (only three on live people), I’ve never done a cric on anyone. Furthermore, when it’s time to cric, we need to be ready. Unfortunately, we can’t […]
Drinking the PPI Hate-O-Rade
Hi all, sorry about the extended hiatus. I was away after Christmas for about 12 days and have been getting back in the swing of things over the past week. Since the break, one great new blog that has popped up on the FOAMed landscape is the boringem blog, started by Brent Thoma, one of […]
Choosing your Battles: My Christmas Pearl of 2012
This blog post isn’t about EBM or getting my hate on about antiquated dogma; it is about a useful pearl that I think can benefit all of my like-minded, avant-garde, #FOAMed friends out there. In particular, this is a piece of advice that the “young whippersnapper” types like myself should pay attention to. Last week […]
Evidence Based Laceration Repair
First, a huge thanks to everyone who has been visiting the site, tweeting and spreading the #FOAMed love. FOAM is all about word of mouth, and having others spread the word drives me to put up more posts. Second, if you have comments or suggestions to improve the blog, questions for me, or myths you’d […]