Month: May 2020

BATman; Barkers Anaesthetic Tips

In this series Dr Glenn Barker will bring you tips on all things anaesthesia, airway and retrieval. Here is his first episode on Art line set up. Glenn is a Rural Hospitalist with JCCA and Post Grad Cert in Aeromedical Retrieval....

Introducing CRandalls Ultrasound Hit: CRUSH

As part of our contribution to free and open medical education, the team at Taupo Hospital will feature a series of short and accessible ultrasound posts aimed at Rural Generalist trainees. For further certification in POCUS check out Otago Universities Post Graduate Certificate Here is episode 1. Enjoy....

Kotahitanga 1

Hello and welcome to this first publication of Kotahitanga. Here we hope to share the collective brain power of New Zealand’s Emergency Departments’ Journal Clubs. ...

COVID–19 pandemic and rural generalism

“New Zealanders recently learnt that the first COVID-19 patient death occurred in Greymouth Hospital. What has been most revealing for local clinicians is the effect on our workforce. Simultaneously 21 staff members have been put into self-isolation.” Read the full article here Open Access in the NZMJ. Senior managers and...

Kai Māori

Chareese and Alex Henare. Are traditional low carb, healthy fat diets the key to reversing T2DM?...