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As part of a new section on Injectable Orange, I am gradually adding a number of my past presentations to the site. Feel free to adapt, use, chop to bits and sticky-tape back together. All part of a philosophy of not wasting time on duplication. This is a very basic […]

Basic Cardiovascular A&P – Presentation

This entry was posted in Presentations and tagged Cardiac heart powerpoint on October 12, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Slides from presentation/discussion for a great group of Nurses at the Pulmonary Workshop. The patient cases contained in the presentation are a fictional composite of multiple presentations – not based on any real person. There will be slide notes and more resources to follow, when I get some time (i.e. […]

Desaturation – Presentation

This entry was posted in Presentations on August 16, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

This week I had my mind blown. Insights into the world of Trauma, Mass Casualty, Disaster Response and Military Medicine, opened up a whole new world at the Trauma and Disaster Management event hosted at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and supported by Laerdal Medical. Highlights Dr David Cooksley […]

Casualties of War

This entry was posted in FOAM on July 9, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

I love Twitter and I love #FOAMed. I get to be a fly on the wall observing passionate and qualified debates on interesting and arguably controversial topics. In a refreshing divergence from the cricoid pressure debate, the Minh Le Cong (PHARM) and Nic Chrimes (VORTEX) public airway philosophical discussion rolled […]

Running Before Learning to Tie Shoelaces

This entry was posted in FOAM and tagged #FOAMed airway Competency. on June 21, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Ever read a dogmatic news headline and had that niggling discomfort with the ‘science’ that passes for newsworthy ‘evidence’? OK, yes, me too. How about read an abstract in an area of interest and quoted the conclusions with conviction later to earn conversational credibility? Be honest, we’ve all done it. […]

Battling Bad Science

This entry was posted in Evidence-Based Practice FOAM and tagged #dogmalysis #FOAMed on May 19, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

We recently had the pleasure to host the Emergency Department Registrars Trauma Workshop. For the station on difficult IV access, the consultants had collectively decided to push the challenge of teaching ultrasound guided deep vessel cannulation. Only problem, how to do it? I found quite a good recipe on youtube: […]

Home Made IV Access Ultrasound Phantom

This entry was posted in FOAM Simulation and tagged #FOAMed IV access Trauma Ultrasound on May 8, 2013 by Jesse Spurr