Urgent Bite 224 – Walking on your ankle injury
Weight-bearing at the time of the injury and assessment forms part of the Ottawa ankle rules.
Urgent Bite 223 – Using smell to diagnose
Smell can be used to diagnose.
Urgent Bite 222 – Antihistamines use in eczema
Do antihistamines help with the itch of dermatitis?
Urgent Bite 221 – Overseas medication
When you need help with identifying medications from overseas visitors, you can always call your local pharmacist, or you could try this website.
Urgent Bite 220 – Helping in an emergency
As medical professionals, we must know our legal and moral obligations to help in case of emergency.
Urgent Bite 219 – Music to help you focus, sleep and relax
Certain music can help improve your concentration, help you relax and improve your sleep.
Urgent Bite 218 – Thinking about cold and flu remedies
Cold and flu remedies containing pseudoephedrine are now a class C drug in New Zealand and available from pharmacies.
Dr Tony Smith talks Double Sequential and Vector Change Defibrillation for resistant VF/VT
Dr Tony Smith, Deputy Clinical Director at Hato Hone St John, tells us about Double Sequential and Vector Change Defibrillation for resistant VF/VT. These new techniques, not currently covered in our NZRC resus algorithms, are being utilised by all ambulance services in New Zealand for patients who do not get ROSC after three shocks.
Prof. Bruce Arroll talks anxiety, asthma, breathing techniques and the polyvagal theory
Professor Bruce Arroll talks to us about a practical technique that can help regulate breathing in people having panic attacks or during an asthma attack. The conversation then leads into discussing the Polyvagal Theory, physician wellness, and chronic pain.
Urgent Bite 217 – The ASIS avulsion
Remember to consider an ASIS avulsion in young athletes who experience pain and a pop around their hip when sprinting.