And with that shiny new airway, you’ll need a few accessories…
Well, now that we have established you can improvise a video laryngoscope (VL) for less than $50, we move to the process of ventilating your patient. The fashionable airway […]
Category Archives: Medical supplies
Quick Post: Difficult Pressure Dressings
Difficult Pressure Dressings Here are some solutions to apply and continue direct pressure without having to keep your knee in someone’s crotch the whole time. These can be done with […]
Night at the improv…
So anyone who deals with airway, knows what a video laryngoscope (hereafter VL) is. The major player in this field is the Glidescope, which has been around for […]
Medical Kits – subverting the dominant paradigm
CAUTION: This post may turn some sacred cows into succulent tenderloin and juicy hamburger. pa4ortho is de-cloaking to unleash a volley of medical photon torpedoes in a broadside attack on gear-centric medical […]
Herbal medicine and the National Institute of Health
Most of you know by now, that I am simultaneously open and closed to the idea of herbal medications. On the one hand, it is no secret that a substantial […]
Homemade Insulin: Part I
I remember, of course, the day it happened. He was such a young tike, too. Not even a year old. He’d had a fever for the last couple of days, […]
Anatomy and Physiology x.10: The thyroid and how to replace it
I’m not sure how far ahead we have jumped in our Anatomy & Physiology lectures by going from blood pressure to thyroid medications. But here we are. Since we refer […]
Herbal medicine, vaginal secretions, and the Scientific Method.
In comments to this post on WRSA (and a BIG hat tip to CA for linking to us) a couple of commenters indicated that cayenne pepper, or black pepper, could […]
Quick Post: Thyroid medications
From a reader’s comments: “I take Synthroid. I had thyroid cancer when I was 18. I have a backup stash of medicine, and I rotate into it every time I […]
Quick Post: Long term Storage of Meds–SLEP data
Sorry for the lack of recent posting, I am on service in the ICU and quite busy. Grabbed something too good to pass up, however. I here present the actual […]
Hogwarts School of Grid-Down Medicine and Wizardry 