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Recently my image below was featured on Flickr Blog so I figured it was time for some more phooning fun!

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How can you possibly rely on your visual sense to point a needle at something which you can not see? Welcome to the wonderful world of arterial line placement where tactile aiming is king. Extend the wrist, feel that pulse, and stab in the dark. A bright flash is all you need to know you hit the bullseye. Be careful and holster those two digits of yours, you're a sharpshooter now.

AWESOME!


Inspired by "1000 Awesome Things".
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After dozens of successful intubations on mannequins, now is your chance to prove yourself on a real patient. Push the propofol and vecuronium, scissor-finger between the teeth, slide the laryngoscope blade in, pull forward, check out those beautiful cords, and push the tube through. It's your first patient. It's your first true intubation. You feel like a pro, but you know you'll need thousands more to be approved as a professional. That doesn't matter, because you know you're gonna love every chance you get.

AWESOME!


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From just outside Shap Abbey, Shap, UK.

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From the driveway of the Noran Bank Farm, Patterdale, UK.

There are plenty of comparisons between anesthesiology and aviation, but you can add yet another: the heads-up display (HUD).

In the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia is an article titled "Monitoring with Head-Mounted Displays in General Anesthesia: A Clinical Evaluation in the Operating Room" (PDF), which showed an increased amount of time clinically monitoring the patient and surgical field and a decreased amount of time viewing the awkwardly-placed anesthesia workstation. Further research is planned to determine if this technology will actually improve anesthesiologist O.R. performance.


Example of the display shown below:
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"You Are Not Your Neighbor’s Health Care Provider", a 40-minute talk from the Ayn Rand Center.


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Some say that natural-orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a brand-new advancement in minimally-invasive surgery, but I think the idea was known for decades and was inspired by the 1991 movie "Hot Shots". Besides pioneering transrectal minimally-invasive surgery, the movie also was the forefront of the treatment for walleye vision with the multioptipupilloptomy procedure. _uacct = "UA-569368-3"; urchinTracker();

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