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Resuscitation trolley checking: Making it a priority

Who checks the resuscitation or emergency trolley in your workplace? It’s easy to find guidelines about what items to include on the trolley, depending on your clinical environment. What’s not as easy is how to ensure that staff prioritise completing the checks, especially when you consider the ever-expanding lists of tasks that must be performed.

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Green with Asthma
Green with Asthma
Dr Neal Tucker

How can I be more green? Cycle to work? No more steak? Stop my inhaler…?

Australia: Why are we the allergy capital of the world?
Australia: Why are we the allergy capital of the world?
Crystal Smith

The increasing rates of food allergies has been alarming over the past 30 years in Western countries. So, is there a genuine rise in allergies, or just better awareness?

Holiday Musings
Holiday Musings
Dr Jan Orman

As I write this I am sitting at the window of my cabin on a Hurtigruten cruise watching the Norwegian Coast slide by and contemplating the value of holidays. I suspect I am not alone in saying that the trouble with holidays is that it doesn’t matter how far you go or how long you stay away, you always take yourself with you.

Time to rationalise our use of inflammatory markers
Time to rationalise our use of inflammatory markers
Dr Robert Walker

Injudicious use of inflammatory marker testing for non-specific symptoms is likely to cause more harm than good.

KISS: Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
KISS: Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
A/Prof Stephen Barnett

A 45 year old woman with a painful hip comes to see you. She’s normally fit and active, but is now getting pain that is disturbing her walking and waking her at night.

eHealth: big questions, short answers
eHealth: big questions, short answers
Stoyan Stoyanov

Quality, appropriateness, safety, efficacy – I have encountered countless presentations, publications, messages of concern, questions and statements of uncertainty when it comes to these aspects of digital health interventions (DHIs).

Changes to Medication Naming in Australia
Changes to Medication Naming in Australia
Ken Hambrecht

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has announced that Australia will be implementing changes to medication names by 2020, to align with the international standardised medication names.

Kindling Kindness
Kindling Kindness
Dr. Sarah Barker

As health professionals, our strong focus tends to be on the wellbeing of others. If we are to have a long career in our professions, we need to swing that focus regularly and routinely to ourselves as well.

Are you listening to podcasts yet?
Are you listening to podcasts yet?
Dr Jan Orman

If you have a mobile device and a set of headphones the chances are you already know how great podcasts are to listen to on the run, on the bus or even while you do the ironing!