You are a junior consultant on a temporary contract in a metropolitan ED and hope the contract will become permanent.
During a resuscitation, a highly respected senior FACEM team leader decides to intubate a 9-year-old boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, pneumonia and respiratory failure.
Your colleague asks the nurse to draw up ketamine and suxamethonium for intubation.
State your response to the choice of drugs.
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State how you would communicate this to your senior colleague.
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State two barriers to effective communication in this situation.
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List the next steps in your communication strategy if the senior colleague does not respond favourably.
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List three principles of harm minimisation.
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Define the study of human factors.
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