Critical care practice in and out of hospital is a demanding field of medicine. It attracts a certain type of personality – the warrior: Those who want to do more, be more, work harder, evolve, innovate, be there for the big jobs, the complicated challenges. In a life that is becoming 24/7 and technology that can provide interventions and care in the this field of medicine that was only dreamt off a few years ago has become a reality, but also led to incredible high demands on our time, energy and dedication. We are dedicated to our cause, to our patients, to our services, but in the process, we are working longer hours, dealing with more complicated cases, higher demands and having more difficult advance care conversations. We work long shifts, live on caffeine but preach “first do no harm”. We neglect quality sleep, good diets and in the process of trying to save others, might be killing ourselves. Fatigue is a killer and it is sneaking up on us like an enemy unseen. Whether you know if or not, you are in a battle for your own life.
Fatigue, the enemy unseen
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SMACC Force Rant: Is it the Skillset or Background that Count?
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care, ATACC, Critical Care Paramedic, Critical Care Physician, Critical Care Retrieval, Immediate Care, Paramedic, PHARM, PHEM, Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine, Prehospital care, Prehospital Doctor, Prehospital Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Training, SMACCDub, 0
In a 2 min rant about medical tribalism, Dr. van der Velde questions which medical specialty, if any, owns...
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EM Year in Review
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, critical appraisal, cutting edge, emergency medicine, literature, publishing, science, SMACCDub, updates, 0
Ryan Radecki There are nearly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way – and almost that many articles published...
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Things That Scare Me
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, bleeding, death, paediatric surgery, Trauma, 0
In our professional and private lives there are things that scare us, how we manage that fear defines us.
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Leadership is a Trait of an Individual
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Leadership, Pearls and Pitfalls, Professionalism, Resilience, 0
Leadership is not particularly a male or a female quality. It is a trait of an individual. “You know...
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The FemInEM Story
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, feminem, feminism, SMACCDub, women in medicine, 0
We accept that knowledge translation is critical to the practice of emergency medicine, yet when it comes to the...
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Controversies in Brain Death
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, 0
There is a need for international consensus in the determination of brain death to address the challenges and controversies...
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Hospital Handover of Major Trauma – Make them Listen
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Ambulance, emergency, Handover, Paramedic, Patient handover, SMACCDub, Trauma, 0
Describing the importance of patient handover and the critical time when the pre-hospital practitioner will give this information to...
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The Perils of Peer Review
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, bmj, iconoclastic, journals, Peer review, publishing, quality assurance, richard smith, 0
Peer review is central to science, but ironically is faith rather than evidence based in that it lacks evidence...