Technology is good for learning‚ information and even wisdom at our fingertips, tech like simulation and virtual reality is cool. And technology really hit its straps with social and collaborative learning. But technology is bad‚ distracting, and multi-tasking impairs learning, our health can suffer, and good technology can be badly applied (eg PowerPoint as a "crime against connection" in presentations). Some technology is expensive without learning impact, and social media and the internet hav...
Jan 12, 2020•16 min
It's hard to die without passing through MET-calling criteria; if you try to do so on a hospital ward, chances are you'll have an Intensivist next to you. By designing systems to detect patient deterioration, we've inadvertently invented acute palliative care. How did we move from resuscitators to out-of-hours death doulas so rapidly? Is death the future of Intensive Care Medicine?
Jan 11, 2020•19 min
A neonates journey, just what feedback would your neonatal patient give you after 3 months of intensive care? Listen to the innocent observation and experience of daily life in NICU and perhaps approach a future patient with little voice slightly differently.
Jan 10, 2020•17 min
How can you live a full creative life in the midst of a busy medical career? Fiona gives a very inspiring talk at the Get Creative Workshop, discussing the fascinating pathway her life has taken, allowing her to fulfill her creative potential whilst still developing her medical career as a paediatric emergency physician.
Jan 08, 2020•39 min
Jan 07, 2020•21 min
Delivery of safe healthcare currently faces unprecedented challenges in the UK and globally. This arises, at least partly, from a rising involvement of the criminal law in the investigation of medical errors apparently conflicting with the need to respect a "duty of candour". As a result, doctors face enormous pressures in fear of being blamed for medical errors. David Sellu is a consultant surgeon who was convicted for gross negligence manslaughter in late 2013 after the death of a patient in a...
Dec 18, 2019•25 min
OHCA, Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest is surrounded in controversies from bystander CPR and the use of Adrenaline, to airway management and mechanical CPR. Who better to hear the latest updates from other than Gavin Perkins, author of Paramedic 2 and lead on ILCOR guidelines
Dec 18, 2019•18 min
Learn how to reinvigorate yourself after nights, a period of downtime, or when you are recovering from compassion fatigue or post critical care exhaustion - Reflection is Key
Dec 18, 2019•13 min
What can Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine teach us about life? Natalie May reflects on lessons learned at Sydney HEMS - from the practical to the philosophical.
Dec 18, 2019•10 min
Many critical care practitioners, like workers in other industries, sleep less than recommended amounts, in what is truly an epidemic of poor sleep in our modern industrialised society. The effects of sleep deprivation are serious and visible across all levels of our community. The actual proportion of people who can live on insufficient sleep is extremely low and the first step towards improvement is to recognise when our sleep tank is running on empty. Simple changes in daily habits based on o...
Dec 18, 2019•12 min
According to the WHO, there are more than 400,000 homicides globally each year, with millions more suffering from non-fatal injuries. Our hospitals and emergency departments care for many of these patients; however, many return with repeat injuries or are killed within 5 years. In order to reduce intentional violence, it is necessary to discuss and understand its root causes. Dr. Gore’s talk will touch on some of the root causes of violence and further discuss the program he founded called KAV...
Dec 18, 2019•12 min
Oli Flower presents at the Get Creative workshop on how to communicate with graphics. We all use images to get our messages across - how can we do this more effectively? He talks about understanding your target audience, techniques for brain storming, and the importance of getting criticised.
Dec 18, 2019•24 min
Evidence based medicine holds RCT's, randomised Control Trials, as the highest level of evidence but they are often poorly constructed and misinterpreted. This talk by world renowned clinical researcher Professor Simon Finfer analyses the common mistakes and failings of RCT's and describes way that we can do better.
Dec 18, 2019•18 min
Emergency Medicine operates early in the course of disease when uncertainty is high and information light. We need to do things that help us cognitively offload in the care of critically ill patients.In how many specialties would you be expected to acutely manage (and possibly resuscitate) anyone who comes to you for care‚ young or old, surgical or medical, sick or not sick with limited time and information. We are constantly having to think outside the box.Consider these 4 topics when thinking ...
Dec 18, 2019•24 min
Episode 3 follows the trauma patient into the ICU and focuses on the management of Septicaemia, Antibiotics, Steroids for sepsis and how gender inequality within medicine can adversely effect patient outcomes.
Dec 18, 2019•23 min
Presenting the best literature on resuscitation published 2018 including Paramedic 2, Airways 2, CAM, A rapid fire review critically analysing the hottest papers published during 2018. A fantastic overview of all things resuscitation.
Dec 18, 2019•17 min
Cognitive bias and risk management are vital understandings to high performance teams in medicine . My extreme sports seem like extreme risk to many people but I have survived 20 years in these disciplines following risk management strategies learned in critical care medical environments. I am interested in the role cognitive biases play in every day and critical decision pathways. In particular I am interested in the Affect Heuristic. My talk borrows from my extreme sport and critical care expe...
Dec 18, 2019•23 min
The presentation guru Ross Fisher gives a workshop on how to be creative and engaging when you're presenting, no matter what your topic is.
Dec 18, 2019•23 min
Ken Milne the author of skeptics guide to emergency medicine SGEM reviews the hottest critical care literature for 2018 2019. Ken reviews articles from the Lomaghi trial on magnesium for rate control in Atrial fibrillation, Expulsive therapy for renal calculi with Tamulosin, Oxygen therapy in critical illness in the Iota trial and finally aromatherapy for nausea and vomiting.
Dec 09, 2019•15 min
Peter Brindley interviews Khairil Musa about Performing Arts, specifically dance, and how this complements his career in critical care.
Dec 09, 2019•29 min
Episode 2: Series of three episodes spanning the patient journey from roadside pre-hospital trauma through the emergency and resuscitation rooms to the Intensive Care unit. In this first episode Ashley and Rueben use a panel of experts to examine some of the major pre-hospital resuscitation controversies including Pre-hospital intubation and blood tranfusion.
Dec 09, 2019•29 min
After many years of feeling frustrated about gender inequity and harassment in healthcare, I decided to do something about it. My advocacy in the age of social media has been a surprising and exhilarating journey, and led me to believe that even the most ordinary person, when activated around a cause, can have impact.
Dec 09, 2019•11 min
Exploring the many aspects of creativity which may, or may not, assist you in a life of critical care medicine.
Dec 09, 2019•38 min
Paediatric constipation is a common problem and the biggest problem clinicians make is not taking a thorough bowel history. Forty percent of paediatric patients in Emergency have abnormal bowel habit. Constipation is not what you pass as a bowel habit but what you don't pass - Its what is left behind that causes the constipation.
Dec 09, 2019•25 min
The delivery of nutrition to the critically ill is incredibly complex. There is little evidence that providing standard nutritional requirements of 25K/cal/Kg improves outcome. Foremost amongst this evidence is the TARGET trial, a large randomised controlled trial of 4000 patients in Intensive care.
Dec 09, 2019•13 min
Road to Resus is a three day series of a patient experience, with critical decision points at every turn allowing the audience to decide on the course of action after hearing from topic experts.
Dec 09, 2019•24 min
Humans aren't wired for connecting immediate pleasure (unprotected sex, alcohol, drugs, cigarettes) with some ethereal medium-term risk. As a result, 'public health campaigns' rarely work. Meanwhile, we make decisions far less based on 'fact' than on 'emotion'. When did you ever see a chocolate ad telling you about the ingredients? This may be why we have failed to convince public or politicians alike to take action on climate change. Hugh will discuss such issues from his personal work in the c...
Dec 06, 2019•12 min
SMACCForce: Prehospital Neurosurgery by Mark Wilson
Mar 06, 2019•11 min
SMACCMini: I am the Decider
Mar 06, 2019•19 min
SMACCMini: He's a bit different, he's a surgeon by Ross Fisher
Mar 06, 2019•20 min
