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Acid-Base
“I should refresh myself on acid-base stuff” I naively thought to myself, after being asked to give some impromptu teaching at an ALS course. “Probably just recap the bicarb-CO2 thingy and that’ll cover it”. Oh, sweet summer child. After many hours of trying to find the ABC answer to this topic, I’ve discovered no such…
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Non-Invasive Ventilation
A breakdown of non-invasive ventilation based on a difficult patient case. Having used NIV successfully many times, I was taken aback when I experienced my first treatment failure with it.
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Lessons from a Fighter Pilot
I’m always interested in learning how others think and frame what they do. Increasingly I feel that the internal dialogue and frameworks we cultivate have a disproportionate effect on how we conduct ourselves in work and life. Hasard Lee is a US Air Force fighter pilot who has flown over 80 combat missions in Afghanistan,…