See: Employing visualization exercises, imagery, and mental practice Another psychological skill that can benefit emergency medical care providers is visualization, or mental practice. This skill allows a provider to walk through the steps of a procedure or skill in his or her mind before actually performing it. This process can act as blueprint or mental video recording of … [Read more...]
Lights Camera Action: Redirecting Videolaryngoscopy (Guest Post)
A guest post by George Kovacs and John Adam Law These past couple of months will be remembered as significant for many reasons. (No, this is not an election commentary). To me (GK), this period was marked by three important headlines: Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize, Leonard Cohen’s death and Lewis et al.’s Cochrane review of videolaryngoscopy (VL) vs. direct laryngoscopy (DL).1 Dylan … [Read more...]
Situation Awareness in Resuscitation Part 2: A Force of Habit
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day’s work... -Sir William Osler In Situation Awareness in Resuscitation (Part 1), I discussed the cognitive science behind situation awareness (SA) and how it has become a part of evaluating non-technical skills in … [Read more...]
Situation Awareness in Resuscitation by Mike Lauria
The more and more you are aware, the more and more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh, uncontaminated by previous conditioning. -Bruce Lee Perhaps one of the most dangerous events in both military and civilian retrieval medicine is hoisting. Although relatively infrequent it is sometimes necessary to recover a sick or injured … [Read more...]
StaS Maneuver: Changing out a Non-Intubating Laryngeal Airway
A while ago, I posted videos of the method I use to change an intubating laryngeal airway (AirQ, Igel, etc.) for an endotracheal tube. But what if there is a non-intubating laryngeal airway or one with a crossbar in place? Well if you have a disposable bronch, then you can use this method from Erik Laurin and Will Rosenblatt.Erik Laurin is an EM doc who came up with a way … [Read more...]
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