As more people survive episodes of severe sepsis the serious long term adverse effects on health and quality of...
Archive for month: March, 2017
Remembering Rory: Sepsis and Learning from Error
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, medical error, pediatric sepsis, Rory Staunton, Sepsis, 0We will walk together through the events surrounding the tragic death of Rory Staunton, caused by sepsis. The focus...
Hospital Handover of Major Trauma – Make them Listen
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Ambulance, emergency, Handover, Paramedic, Patient handover, SMACCDub, Trauma, 0Describing the importance of patient handover and the critical time when the pre-hospital practitioner will give this information to...
Evaluating the evidence supporting Hypothermia after severe brain injury.
Stroke Emergency! Don’t Have a Stroke …
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, endovascular, stroke, thrombolysis, 0Is time really brain? Does tPA have a future? Is the medieval era of stroke finally ending, or will...
Neurosurgeons aren’t idiots, honestly.
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, decompressive crainectomy, Neurocritical care, neurosurgery, Trauma, traumatic brain injury, workplace culture, 0Will we ever work out which patients benefit from a decompressive crainectomy?
There is a need for international consensus in the determination of brain death to address the challenges and controversies...
Small Packages, Big Lessons: Neonatal and paediatric retrieval
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, neonatal, 0Hazel Talbot provides an insightful look at neonatal and paediatric retrieval in her talk “Small Packages, Big Lessons”.
Transfusion Thresholds in Acute Brain Injury
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, blood, haemoglobin, hb, ICH, Neuro, neurosurgery, SAH, SMACCDub, subarachnoid haemorrhage, tbi, transfusion, traumatic brain injury, 0A bare knuckle pit fight between Oli Flower & Simon Finfer over when to transfuse in acute brain injury…...
Paed-Iconoclasm: Breaking the Myths without Breaking Your Patient
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, California, dogma, dogmalysis, emergency medicine, Harbor-UCLA, Horeczko, Myths, paediatrics, pediatrics, PEM, SMACCDub, Tim, Tim Horeczko, USA, 0Myths persist because they are essential to the human experience and our development as a society. They fill the...