Describing the importance of patient handover and the critical time when the pre-hospital practitioner will give this information to the receiving hospital staff. Using an analogy of the characters that appear in cowboy films, the preacher stands out as one who usually plays a small but significant role in getting his message across. We will compare this to the modern day practitioner and how they should achieve the objective of giving a good handover to the receivers, who may or may not be believers.
Hospital Handover of Major Trauma – Make them Listen
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Stroke Emergency! Don’t Have a Stroke …
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, endovascular, stroke, thrombolysis, 0
Is time really brain? Does tPA have a future? Is the medieval era of stroke finally ending, or will...
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The Sick and the Dead: Evidence-Based Trauma Resuscitation in 2016
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Evidence Based Medicine, Resuscitation, SMACCDub, thoracotomy, Trauma, 0
Resuscitation of the critically ill trauma patient involves a myriad of high-stakes, time-sensitive management decisions. The landscape is shifting...
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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, 0
Myths persist because they are essential to the human experience and our development as a society. They fill the...
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm?: How to be truly “awake” during a shift
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Fatigue, shift work, SMACCDub, warm up, 0
Is there a specific time during our shift when we are too fatigued to safety practice? That was the...
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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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Neurocritical care and traumatic brain injury – PRO: Martin Smith, CON: Mark Wilson
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, cerebral ischemia, Neurocritical care, neuromonitoring, outcomes, secondary brain injury, SMACCDub, traumatic brain injury, 0
Martin Smith The management of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) has undergone extensive revision following evidence that longstanding and...
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Neurosurgeons aren’t idiots, honestly.
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, decompressive crainectomy, Neurocritical care, neurosurgery, Trauma, traumatic brain injury, workplace culture, 0
Will we ever work out which patients benefit from a decompressive crainectomy?
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Why your hospital is broken
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Deteriorating Patient, Medical Emergency Teams, MET, Rapid response systems, RRT, SMACCDub, 0
As patients becomes more complex, the tribal systems we use to look after them remain stuck in the 18th...