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Here at ECT4Health our nurse educators regularly post KYJ's that cover a range of topics from cardiac to wound care. We break down all the academic jargon, give first hand real life examples and dispel common myths about healthcare procedures. Stay in the know with our educational and interesting medical news updates.
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21 Oct 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding Kussmaul's Breathing
#KYJ: Kussmauls Breathing In this knowing your jargon episode I will discuss the commonly seen rapid breathing pattern seen in acidosis....
Read More21 Sep 2021
ECT4Health - Electrolytes in an arrest
Electrolytes - Quick Tip – remember 5 In a cardiac arrest a second line drug therapy (after Adrenaline and Toblerone) is the use of...
Read More20 Aug 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding Kidneys Creatinine and Urea
In this quick KYJ (KnowingYourJargon) I wanted to refresh you on these two important waste products excreted by your kidneys....
Read More17 May 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding Pneumonia. Its not a Chest infection!!
KYJ29- Pneumonia Back to basics with today's Knowing Your Jargon episode. Many nurses have a skewed understanding of respiratory...
Read More06 May 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccination Administration ( #SIRVA )
# SIRVA In today’s #KYJ we look at this rare immunisation complication. Shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)...
Read More28 Apr 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding the Covid Vaccine and clots as a side effect
KYJ - knowing your jargon. How does someone have clots yet no platelets? Clots and vaccines?? Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia???...
Read More28 Apr 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding Capillary Pressures with Bed sores (Decubitus Ulcers)
How is a Decubitus Ulcer (bed sore) - a subdural Haemorrhage; a spinal cord injury and glaucoma all similar? They are obviously different,...
Read More28 Apr 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding Pain assessment - Tricky
Are you assessing pain ? One of the most neglected skill sets of a clinician, is pain assessment. Much has been written over the...
Read More28 Apr 2021
ECT4Health - Understanding Haemostasis Part 1 of 3 - Vasoconstriction
https://knowingyourjargon.blogspot.com/2019/10/rob-on-haemostasis-part-1.html
Read More15 Apr 2021
ECT4Health - AZ vaccine and clots
How does someone have clots yet no platelets? Clots and vaccines?? Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia??? The links between AstraZeneca’s Covid...
Read More17 Sep 2020
ECT4Health - Wound Care Today
Have you got TIME to assess your patient’s wound? Wound assessment is one of those tasks in nursing you either hate or love. Few would deny...
Read More15 May 2020
ECT4Health - A 5th category of shock: Pneumogenic
Are we missing a vital category of shock? Forever - we have had shock classified into 4 main categories, but is there a fifth?...
Read More08 Mar 2020
ECT4Health - EKA and Gliflozins
Why do these drugs cause EKA? With the introduction of *Gliflozins as a strategy to target hyperglycaema, and insulin resistance, there...
Read More01 Feb 2020
ECT4Health - How Vaccination Works
Do you ever remember tasting something or smelling something that takes you back to a childhood memory? Perhaps it was a tune you...
Read More15 Nov 2019
ECT4Health - Tropes and Pressors (Part 2 of 3)
Tropes and Pressors - this episode – The Pressors Recap...…Vasopressors are drugs we give to squeeze arteries (and veins) to increase SVR...
Read More14 Nov 2019
ECT4Health - Tropes and Pressors (Part 1 of 3)
Tropes and Pressors - pa rt 1 of 3 Shock is a state of oxygen deficit (hypoxia) to tissues; all tissues – and of particular concern,...
Read More09 Nov 2019
ECT4Health - Smoke Inhalation
With so many fires in the last few days (weeks) and forecast over this coming month, I though it might be time to review smoke inhalation...
Read More27 Apr 2019
ECT4Health - GTN in Inferior MI
Myth or fact?? GTN and inferior MI In a post on another forum I was asked why GTN shouldn’t be used in Inferior MI patients....
Read More18 Apr 2019
ECT4Health - Proton Pump Inhibitors not good long term
One of the commonest drug classes we see patients taking for reflux or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) is the proton pump inhibitor....
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