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Cosmetic Manslaughter – Second Person Charged
Woman Dies After Botched Breast Surgery – Sydney
Needle Left Inside Patient – Product Recall?
Victims Of Essure
AIRWAY CRISIS
Same scenario. 2 different pathways – which are you taking? Scenario: 60yr male arrives to ED in respiratory compromise, previous tracheostomy (now closed over), assaulted by son who’d stamped on his neck and chest fracturing ribs with likely pneumothorax. (Old notes not available at time later reveal previous attempts to […]
Ban Pholcodine
Pholcodine is an opioid drug found in some cough suppressants. It’s banned in several countries which as a result have much lower death rates from severe allergic reactions to anaesthetics. These countries supply alternative cough suppressants with similar efficacy which do not pose this risk. Pholcodine in cough suppressants […]
Support the Implementation of Gas Monitroing in Areas of Resuscitation #SIGMAR
Anaesthetists have been using gas analysers for years (see here). Access to this equipment in other resuscitation environments will improve patient safety. We support availability of gas analysers (oxygen analysers & capnography) in the following locations: – theatre recovery – emergency resus bays – all arrest trolleys – neonatal resuscitation […]
Electrical Burns From Diathermy
Electrical burns from the use of diathermy are not uncommon. There is much we can do to minimise their occurrence. You can help – please provide any other reports of electrical diathermy burns – support the implementation of safer standardised diathermy equipment – support the petition to have a check […]
‘Black Box’ Law would require cameras in every operating room
Video in OR https://www.outpatientsurgery.net/newsletter/eweekly/2017/03/14#2 Wade Ayer – masterminded black box bill. On messenger.