Patients with TBI (traumatic brain injury) often have concomitant systemic injuries that complicate the management of the TBI. How does the practitioner balance the needs of the hypotensive resuscitation with CPP? How does ICP affect emergent operative needs? Thoracic injuries complicate cerebral oxygenation – are there effective management strategies? Where is the best place to care for these patients?
Management of extra-cranial injuries in patients with TBI
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Motorcycle Simulation
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, SMACCDub, SMACCforce Motorcycle trauma, 0
Motorcycle Trauma Simulation and discussion from Brent May.
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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, 0
A bare knuckle pit fight between Oli Flower & Simon Finfer over when to transfuse in acute brain injury…...
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Publishing and the future of critical care knowledge dissemination
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, data sharing, future, journals, publication, science, 1
Journals have been the main way to publish science for 400 years, but the system is no longer fit...
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Standards in HEMS. What standards?
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, HEMS. Safety. HAA. Standards. FAA. NTSB, SMACCDub, standards, 0
The development of Helicopter EMS (HEMS, or as the Federal Aviation Administration recently coined it: “Helicopter Air Ambulance” or...
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Oh s**t, they’re bombing our hospital! Is this a new paradigm for war?
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Afghanistan MSF Hospital, Doctors without Borders, Kunduz, Kunduz Hospital, Kunduz Hospital Airstrike, Kunduz Hospital Attack, Kunduz Hospital Bombing, Kunduz Trauma Centre, Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, MSF hospital bombing, NotATarget, SMACCDub, Syria Hospital Attacks, Syria hospital bombing, Targeting Hospitals, Yemen hospital attacks, Yemen hospital bombings, 0
After five months working in the ICU and ED of the Médecins Sans Frontières run Kunduz Trauma Centre (KTC)...
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Gut Feelings – Warwick Teague
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, acute abdomen, paediatric surgery, paediatric trauma, pediatric surgery, pediatric trauma, smaccMINI, smaccUS, 0
Warwick Teague talks about assessment of the abdomen of the paediatric trauma patient for the non-surgeon.
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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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Life after sepsis – is it worth living?
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, 0
As more people survive episodes of severe sepsis the serious long term adverse effects on health and quality of...