Welcome to Ward 10. I hope you will both enjoy your stay with us and make the most of it. Learning does require a little effort but hopefully we can help each other by sharing the task.
The two minute tutorial topic for Friday is The Normal ECG. I would like you to choose amongst yourselves from: P wave, QRS complex, T wave, PR interval, Axis. The goal is for us to be able to recognise a normal ECG. You are limited to two minutes. Be precise yet concise and tell us your sources.
The paper to read, digest (intellectually) and then discuss on Tuesday is The Road to Recovery, by David Psetsky.
We usually have a weekly topic for audit, but we can choose our first topic on Friday.
There are at least two on-going audits of which you should be aware:
Antibiotic use is checked against local guidance (available on the intranet and due to be updated any day). It is important that the correct empirical antibiotic is chosen or the reason for chosing an alternative is clearly stated in the case notes or prescription kardex. The indication and expected duration of treatment or review date should be recorded.
We audit the recording of DNA-CPR and ceiling of care weekly (well you do).
Interesting papers:
Paracetamol, ibuprofen, or a combination of both drugs against knee pain: an excellent new randomised clinical trial answers old questions and suggests new therapeutic recommendations.
PS the links in the frame on the left are mostly inactive at present, awaiting my guiding hand.
MJM
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