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Episode 42: Neck Trauma: The Trauma Airway and Surgical Airway Controveries

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

Part of a series of talks coortdinated for @surgq8.  A review for how to intubate in cases where the Trauma Component leads to challenging anatomy.  Als controversies in surgical airways in the ER    #foamed #meded #trauma #icu #surgery

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Episode 41:The Partial Responder Dilemma: Cross Sectional Imaging

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

I was just hoping to introduce some of the concepts that can help you predict which will declare themselves as stable and which will declare themselves unstable when it comes to partial responders. 

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Episode 40: Surviving your first year of Residency (or internship)

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

As requested by Squashboi89 on Reddit, here is an epsidoe with some clinical pearls, some not so clinical pearls and some do and don’ts.    Bottom line is that its a 5 year investment in a 25 year career.    #education #residency #internship #burnout

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Episode 39: Reboa – a primer!

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

I received a request on itunes reviews for an episode on REBOA so here it goes!    How to use it, when to use and what the data is like.    #reboa #endovascular #trauma #criticalcare #resuscitation

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Episode 38: COVID-19 PREP: Bringing it all together.

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

So this is just a cap stone, run through of everything we talked about for the past couple of episodes.    If you have any other topic suggestions please do not hesitate thesurgepodcast(at)gmail.com

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Episode 37:COVID-19 PREP : Helping families of COVID-19 Positive Patients in the ICU

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

Again, I’ve been getting emails asking me about my thoughts on the subject.  I actually asked some of my colleagues about it as well and realised that theres some food for thought here and is extremely challenging.    ALSO AN APOLOGY, IN THE PREVIOUS EPISODE I SHOULD HAVE MADE IT MORE CLEAR THAT MENTAL HEALTH […]

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Episode 36: COVID-19 PREP: Supporting patients and Survivors Mental Health Through the Pandemic

May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

So social isolation, the stress of being in a hospital and the things that patietns see as a result of overcrowding are all part and parcel of the journey we are all going through world wide.    Just a short talk with some thoughts on how to start to help your patients stay happy and […]

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Episode 35: COVID PREP Frontliner and First Responder Mental Health.

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

I’ve received an email about how people can help without being frontliners or if they cant be.    One of the key things you can do to support front liners is not material; it’s to be part of their mental support system. 

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Episode 34: COVID 19 PREP So you have a ventilated patient on your ward and they are calling you at 2 am …. (White Belt to Blue Belt Level)

May 2, 2020May 2, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

So with all of the issues with offsite ventilation of COVID-19 patients around the world, I’ve had requests from my surgical colleagues to do a trouble shooting talk on ventilators.    So here it goes……. 

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Episode 33: COVID-19 PREP Ventilation Primer for non-specialists (White Belt to Blue Belt Level)

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 Saud Leave a Comment

So this WILL NOT BE a be and end all.  It’s about the basics of what modes are, what to do where and what works where.  For now I’m recommending ARDSNET protocol if in doubt but it will or may change as our reality is we’ve never done this before so. 

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