…joints (wrist, finger joints). A 20–50 mL syringe for a knee with a large effusion, 5–10 mL for smaller joints. Local anaesthesia of…

…or linear probe. Sterile clothing: gown, gloves, cap, mask, fenestrated drape. Chlorhexidine in alcohol 5 mg/mL. Local anaesthesia: lidocaine 10 mg/mL, 10–20…

…mL syringe. A tourniquet: a Penrose drain with artery forceps, or the cut off finger of a sterile glove rolled down. A nail splitter or…

…sterile water for the balloon, a drainage bag and a catheter valve, and lubricant containing a local anaesthetic (lidocaine gel) in a pre filled syringe…

…through a 20 mL syringe and a large bore needle. Chlorhexidine in alcohol to the skin around the wound — not into the wound. Sterile gloves…

…tap: 21–22 G needle, 20 mL and 50 mL syringes. Therapeutic drainage: a commercial paracentesis set or a catheter over needle, 16–18 G…

…G puncture needle, 7–9 cm (a spinal needle or the needle from a pericardiocentesis set), 10 mL and 20 mL syringes, a three way…

…or a 25–27 G needle on a 2 mL syringe as a handle. A low speed rust ring burr if one is available. Sterile…

…sterile dressings, pressure dressing. Procedure 1. Place the patient in the lateral position with the knees drawn up , or prone with a pillow under the…

…Anticoagulant treatment is not in itself a bar to vaccination. Relative: Lymphoedema or previous axillary clearance on the same side. A paretic limb — poorer absorption…

…a 20 mL syringe. Culture swab, microbiology request form. Drainage material: rubber dam drain, a strip cut from a glove, petrolatum impregnated packing strip or…

…if you have selected an objectively measurable finding in advance — usually ptosis or fatigable gaze palsy — that can be assessed before and during the window…

…light checked. Tubes in three sizes, a stylet or bougie taken out and shaped before induction , a syringe for the cuff, a cuff manometer. A…

…Mineral oil or lidocaine to kill an insect in the ear canal. A 30–60 mL syringe with a soft catheter and body temperature water…

…catheter syringe, and equipment for confirming the position. For gastric lavage: a wide bore orogastric tube (Ch 28–32 in an adult), a funnel or…

…you are doing. Indications The laryngeal mask: A rescue airway when intubation has failed and bag mask ventilation is difficult or inadequate. The primary airway…

…and a decongestant nasal spray if the nasal passage is narrow. A 50–60 mL catheter syringe, a collection bag or suction, and a clamp…

…started in an opioid naive patient, or when a conversion between drugs is made without reduction for incomplete cross tolerance. Indications Acute severe nociceptive pain…

…symptoms or obscures the tympanic membrane — not routinely . The wax has a protective function, and the commonest complication of ear syringing is that someone syringes…

…the head of the humerus. A pressure bag or a 50 mL syringe with a three way tap — intraosseous flow requires pressure ; gravity is not…

…2–5 mL syringe. Punches of 2, 3, 4 and 6 mm. A size 15 scalpel, a double edged razor blade or a flexible shave…

…Syringes of 3, 5 and 10 mL, artery forceps, gauze, a dressing, gloves. A cold spray or a lidocaine weal. Site Triamcinolone hexacetonide 20 mg…

…of disease progression. Assessment of pulmonary involvement in systemic disease, for example rheumatoid arthritis or scleroderma, and during treatment with pulmonary toxic drugs. Contraindications Forced…