Hello, RAGErs! This is a quick update about a new project from the RAGE team and friends… The Resuscitology Course. This is a two-day residential course for resuscitationists in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia on May 9-10th 2018. The faculty are Brian Burns, Karel Habig, Geoff Healy, Nat May, Chris Nickson, and Cliff Reid. Find o ...…

We’re ready to RAGE again! This one is 85:26 min long and includes: Introduction… kind of (starts 00:00 min) ‘What’s bubbling up?’ (starts 02:08 min) — Dr Smith’s ECG blog, DAS Guidelines for tracheal intubation of the critically ill, “The Human Factor” and trauma team performance. ‘DNR’ (starts 14:58 min) — the RAGE team discuss the concept of ...…

Happy New Year! The next ‘proper’ RAGE session is on track for recording in about a week or so. In the meantime, here is a talk on ‘Simulation for Elite Performers’ by Chris Nickson from last year’s Performance Psychology in Medicine Conference run by the Institute of Prehospital Care in London. The podcast is 34 min 38 sec duration. Thanks to ...…

It is time to RAGE again! This one is 61:38 min long and includes: Introduction… kind of (starts 00:00 min) ‘What’s bubbling up?’ (starts 04:48 min) — an ED checklist for cognitive debiasing, are ‘cold’ platelets ready for primetime, the ART trial and the open lung approach to ventilation using recruitment manoeuvres ‘What’s The Sats Target?’ ( ...…

The next RAGE session is here! (we’re no longer numbering them as the low numbers are depressing…) This one is 95 min long and includes: Introduction and ‘What’s bubbling up?’ (starts 00:00 min) — head rotation for effective ventilation, The Procedures Course, FOAM social capital and wellness, Tips for New Doctors.. ‘Optimizing Crisis Resource ...…

‘Three Men and a Microphone’ is a special edition of the RAGE podcast (let’s face it, RAGE podcasts are so infrequent they’re all special!) featuring RAGE Resusciteer Cliff Reid in conversation with these special guest RAGErs: Geoff Healy (prehospitalist/ retrievalist/ anaesthetist) Brian Burns (prehospitalist/ retrievalist/ emergency physician ...…

On August 17th 2016, Associate Professor Vincent Pellegrino, Head of the ECMO service at The Alfred ICU, discussed ECPR during an in-house education session. His discussion included: the difficulties with ECPR definitions and selection criteria Approaches to ECPR, ranging from cannulation techniques and types of cannula, to role cards and the i ...…

Here is the ‘bootlegged’ video footage of John Hinds’ defense of direct laryngoscopy in the prehospital setting. John brings all his usual wit and mischievousness to the defence of the tried and true way of getting a tube between the cords anywhere and at anytime. The audio has been released on the RAGE podcast, and is 7 minutes 30 seconds long ...…

On November 11th 2015, Professor Steve Bernard (@AmbVicMedic), Medical Advisor to Ambulance Victoria, presented a smorgasbord of ‘Updates in Resuscitation‘ at The Alfred ICU junior medical staff teaching session. He discussed: Recent data from registries on in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), particularly from Victoria, and t ...…

RAGE will be coming out hibernation post-SMACC and the first signs of reanimation come in the form of this ‘preSMACC miniRAGE’ featuring Cliff, John and Karel. Register for SMACC Chicago 2015 now and come up and say ‘Hi’ to the RAGE team! FIRST HALF The first half of this miniRAGE is a preview of what the RAGE gang are doing at SMACC Chicago 20 ...…

Listen to this miniRAGE for key information on registration for SMACC Chicago 2015. and to find out what the RAGE team will be doing at #smaccUS. I’ve reposted LITFL’s SMACC Chicago is coming… here: The programme for SMACC Chicago is now online for all to see. It has been a real joy to work on this — … Continue reading SMACC Chicago Registratio ...…

NeuroRAGE is a special edition of the RAGE podcast featuring these special guests: Mark Wilson, prehospitalist with London HEMS and neurosurgeon with the NeuroTrauma unit at Imperial in London Oli Flower, intensivist and NeuroICU enthusiast at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney – co-organiser of SMACC and Intensive Care Network. This edition ...…

Anand ‘Swami’ Swaminathan is an Emergency Physician in New York. He is one of the co-creators of EM Lyceum, and a major contributor to Lifeinthefastlane.com, primarily through R&R in the Fastlane and The LITFL Review, as well as other FOAM resources. Swami is a skeptic of the benefit of adrenaline in cardiac arrest. This is … Continue reading R ...…

Relax, we didn’t really delete the discussion of The ProCESS Trial from RAGE Session Four… We just chopped it out to be published separately as a miniRAGE. This is what we’re talking about: ProCESS Investigators, Yealy DM, Kellum JA, Huang DT, Barnato AE, Weissfeld LA, Pike F, Terndrup T, Wang HE, Hou PC, LoVecchio F, … Continue reading miniRAG ...…

RAGE Session Four is here! (at last…. you say) It is 61 min 46 sec long and includes: Introduction, including a welcome to new RAGE team recruit John Hinds and apologies from Cliff… (starts 00:00 min) ‘What’s bubbling up?’ (starts 01:16 min) — shout outs and interesting discoveries from the world of FOAM and elsewhere featuring regional anaesth ...…

Indispensable RAGE team member Cliff Reid was a keynote speaker at the ACEM Annual Scientific Meeting in 2013. He was tasked with delivering a talk titled ‘What a great job!’ … and, of course, he well and truly delivered. httpv://vimeo.com/93460243 Hopefully this tides you over until the next RAGE session and inspires you as much as it … Contin ...…

As promised in SMACCGOLD IS ALL THE RAGE here is the smaccGOLD edition of the RAGE podcast. This podcast represents the first time all the RAGE podcasters have been together in person. In addition to the RAGE team we had a bunch of friends helping us out: Photo via @markhwilson From left to right: Rich Levitan (@airwaycam) Scott … Continue read ...…

This RAGEback includes commentary and reaction to the RAGE Session Three discussion of severe life-threatening acute asthma. It features comments from Mary Shue on THAM, Greg Miller on lignocaine and someone called Scott Weingart (anyone heard of him?) on non-invasive ventilation. Here’s some stuff on lignocaine (a fairly evidence free zone!): ...…

Just in time for smaccGOLD, RAGE Session Three is here! It is 67 min 53 sec long and includes: Introduction, including an ERCAST shout out and apologies from Haney… (starts 00:00 min) ‘What’s bubbling up?’ (starts 01:30 min) — shout outs and interesting discoveries from the world of FOAM and elsewhere featuring pre-hospital spinal immobilisatio ...…

The discussion of verapamil as an option for the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) in RAGE Session Two went off like a fire cracker in the FOAM world. In this RAGEback, Minh Le Cong from the PHARM podcast explains why the RAGE discussion is not going to change his practice, which is to use adenosine … Continue reading RAGEback: Mi ...…

As promised in RAGE Session Two, Andy Buck and Amit Maini from the Emergency Trauma Management (ETM) course are here to give their side of the story of what happened when a slide from their course was tweeted out of context leading to an unexpected backlash. Be sure to check out: ETM Course FOAMcc Google Plus … Continue reading RAGEback: Andy, ...…

The wait is over, RAGE Session Two is here! RAGE Session Two is 80 min 19 sec long and includes: Introduction, including some bad news… (starts 00:00 min) ‘What’s bubbling up?’ (starts 00:58 min) — shout outs and interesting discoveries from the world of FOAM and elsewhere featuring codeine in kids, post-intubation sedation, adenosine versus ve ...…

You’d be forgiven for thinking it was never going to happen… but it has… the first RAGE Session is finally here! RAGE Session One is 71 min 7 sec long and includes: Introduction, including the RAGE team ‘meet and greet’ (starts 00:00 min) ‘What’s bubbling up?’ (starts 05:40 min) — shout outs and interesting discoveries from the … Continue readi ...…