In a 2 min rant about medical tribalism, Dr. van der Velde questions which medical specialty, if any, owns prehospital physician response. What is more important: skillset or specialty? Is there a role for tiers of physician response? Is there a future in a stand-alone specialty?
SMACC Force Rant: Is it the Skillset or Background that Count?
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Spotting the sick child
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, acute illness, childhood, cognitive overload, Paediatric emergencies, paediatric emergency medicine, paediatric physiology, PEM, psychology, SMACCDub, spotting the sick child, type 1 thinking, type 2 thinking, 0
Reflecting on 26 years of frontline practice in paediatric emergency care: while there’s no substitute for knowledge and experience,...
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Understanding Emergency Medicine as a Complex System
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, complex, personalized, precision, systems, 0
Systems thinking can help providers learn how to treat our patients as individuals and not just as the bucket...
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The ICU is no place for the Elderly – PRO: Francesca Rubulotta, CON: Karin Amrein
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Elderly, ICU, 0
Francesca Rubulotta and Karin Amrein both came out swinging in this debate that universally gets people going! The crowd...
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Bad Blood
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, ADAMTS13, HIT, HUS, non-malignant haematology, purport fulminans, TTP, X DIC, 0
Non-malignant acquired haematological disorders in critical care - DIC, TTP, HUS and other MAHAs, ADAMST13, HIT and NETosis,
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What I learned from Dr John Hinds
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, clinical trial, data safety and monitoring board, DSMB, 0
The evolution of medical evidence from what we think to what we know will be reviewed in an historical...
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I’m not dead
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, hyperkalemia, hypothermia, Lazarus phenomenon, Resuscitation, ROSC, submersion, survival of extremes, 0
In providing critical care we sometimes need to make immediate decisions on who’s dead and who’s not. How are...
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Small Packages, Big Lessons: Neonatal and paediatric retrieval
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, neonatal, 0
Hazel Talbot provides an insightful look at neonatal and paediatric retrieval in her talk “Small Packages, Big Lessons”.
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PURE: Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, 0
The World Health Organization notes that 80-90% of all diagnostic problems could potentially be solved by basic radiograph (x-ray)...