Should “lateral canthotomy” be taught on the advanced trauma life support course?

Should humanities be taught?

zled by such abandonment, but literature suggests that there are many different ways of dealing with pain and suffering. Modern physicians learn to look mainly at disease, defined as whatever can be detected ("imaged") by our machinery, scanner, endoscope, or chemical analyzer. Too few learn to pay attention to illness, the patient's experiencebecause illness cannot be visualized and is hard to...

Prehospital advanced trauma life support: how should we manage the airway, and who should do it?

Adequate oxygenation at all times is of paramount importance to the critically injured patient to avoid secondary damage. The role of endotracheal intubation in out-of-hospital advanced trauma life support, however, remains controversial. Initiated by a recent observational study, this commentary discusses risks and benefits associated with prehospital intubation, the required personnel and tra...

Advanced trauma life support courses.

advanced trauma life support (atls) tips to be kept in mind

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Should Optics be taught to Optometry students?

Though developed out of physics and optics, the optometric profile in the UK has shifted towards a healthcare professional. As a result, optometry students are now stretched between numerous courses as diverse as microbiology, legal aspects related to practice, mathematics, vision or pharmacology. The importance of optics is still affirmed by regulating bodies and universities worldwide, but ma...