Ok !! I give up! I will only allow this site to become yet another EMS and Paramedic blog on a few conditions ! And that is I don’t want to hear any moaning or groaning. This will not become a site dedicated to the grumpy ambulance driver who has become disillusioned with their job and needing a salary increase … if you have an issue, you need to write to your own station officer on the back of an ecg strip or box of gloves like the rest of us and not vent it here! (more…)

I give you exhibit “A” my Lord, the murder weapon, the LMA!! All stand, this court is now in session. If you have time to scan through just one blogsite relating to emergency medicine this week , then spend 10 minutes looking at Andy Neill’s site “Emergency medicine Ireland”. He’s put together a great 10 minute youtube video about a journal paper that questions the use of a LMA in a cardiac arrest. Andy’s video presentation puts forward the argument that the LMA “allegedly” could be a “murder weapon” in a cardiac arrest by compromising vital anatomical structures in the neck when fully inflated. I’ve used the word “allegedly” because that’s what you do when the evidence is so damming and you think the party must be guilty, that’s how the tabloids do it to get away without being held liable for any slander. (more…)