Vaper: finding and backing up your database

Even though your patient records are backed up to your PC every time you ‘sync’ to iTunes, you weren’t able to easily see the database file (as it was encrypted and stored within iTunes’ own backup system). Until now.  From Vaper 1.1.6 onwards,...
A long time between drinks?

A long time between drinks?

Well, it’s been a long time between blog posts but a fair bit of water has flown under my personal bridge. On 31st July, I had a fall (BAC 0.00 in case anyone was wondering) and fractured my first cervical vertebra (C1) with instability of C1 on C2.  In...
Four Corners, DePuy and Articular Surface Replacement hips

Four Corners, DePuy and Articular Surface Replacement hips

If you didn’t see the Four Corners story on ABC television about Articular Surface Replacement hips, now would be a good time to catch it.  Still available on iView , it offers a patient’s eye view of the suffering involved when DePuy ASR hips fail. Firmly...
Hands up, all those still using Thiopentone …

Hands up, all those still using Thiopentone …

The story so far… Hospira – currently the only registered marketer and supplier of Sodium Thiopentone in Australia – stopped making its version, “Pentothal”, at its US plant because of an unspecified raw material supply problem. When...