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The Resuscitation Council (UK) has combined forces with award-winning production company UNIT9 to develop LIFESAVER an interactive film to teach CPR. It's free to use so please share it with your colleagues, friends and family. You can see a 3-minute video introduction to LIFESAVER here...

In view of the recent thread on buying defibs, I've just had this alert sent to me - software problem that could prevent shock shock delivery. FRED Easyport is not affected. Medical Device Alerts : MHRA

Apologies to those for whom this is old news, but I've recently found out that the Quicktrack II (cuffed 4.0mm cricothyroidotomy tube) is available packed in a robust plastic tube as well as the sets designed more for a less hectic environment. Freeland Surgical Ltd are UK suppliers, and I was...

A three year oral history project commissioned by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine culminates this month in the publication of the stories of 62 British men who were prisoners of war in the far East during the second world war, now all in their 90s. The school was involved not only in...

These may be old news to some of you, but they were news to me. I got sent the blog of today's State of the Art meeting, a three day update run each year by the Intensive Care Society. There were a few interesting bits, I thought - one was the concept of one hour of hypotensive resuscitation...

The old MSc in Remote and Isolated Healthcare that is run by Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in conjunction with the British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit has now been revamped and updated. Instead of just being open to doctors, it will now be open to all who have appropriate...