This week’s teaching will be our biannual ECMO/eCPR workshop.

Check out our SVH ecmo-protocol-june-2016 and be familiar with when to activate eCPR from the Batphone eCPR criteria

This week’s teaching will  be our biannual airway workshop with a few brief talks, some great skills stations and, of course, a difficult airway scenario in simulation.

We have our very own SVH ED  Emergency Airway Management Handbook

And here is the SVH ED Intubation Checklist

This week is our biannual FIB workshop, brought to you by Julie Leung (ED Consultant) Julie Gawthorne (ED CNC) and Jenny Stevens (VMO anaesthetist, Head of Pain Service).

If this is all new to you, check out the Vinnies produced FIB in the elderly guide that is published on the ACI website. fascia-iliaca-block-guide

and watch the video of FIB insertion here

You will also need to be familiar with the Vinnies documents svh-fib-protocol and the pain-assessment-in-elderly.

It is a great workshop that will inspire you to insert FIBs into all your NOF# patients ASAP!

ED registrar teaching kicks off 2017 this Wednesday Feb 8th with a review of advanced life support guidelines and changes since the 2015 ILCOR update.

Here is our very own SVH ALS guidelines booklet. svh-als-guidelines-2017

If you are new to Vinnies ED, please familiarise yourself with items in the booklet that may be new to you, such as use of the LUCAS device and management of VAD patients in arrest at St Vincent’s Hospital.