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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Into the Deep: Developing The Resuscitative Collective Unconscious
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, human factors, Mental practice, stress preparation, Teams, 0
Mood manipulation, self-regulation, mental preparation, stress inoculation -- this is the vocabulary of elite teams, and central to the...
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1984. Dystopian Literature and Emergency Medicine
Ka, , The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Bureaucracy, Climate change, Dystopia, Futurism, literature, 0
The role of physical and chemical restraints, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, and ketamine, and the diagnostic and therapeutic priorities for the...
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Confined Space Airway Management
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Airway, airway management, austere, confined space, disaster, HEMS, intubation, prehospital, remote, 0
Locations, challenges, options, techniques and evidence behind managing airways in confined spaces and austere places.
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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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Minor Injuries? Major Trauma!
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Paediatric major trauma, smaccMINI, 0
Paediatric major trauma is rare and terrifying. Seriously injured children need good care but a number of factors (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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Critical Care: No place for a woman?
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, gender difference, gender equality, women, 0
Women in medicine, in academia, in the ICU
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Why we need palliative care everywhere
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, emergency medicine, End of life, Palliative Care, palliative medicine, quality of life, 0
Exploring dogma and myths about knowledge, skills and training of the 'resuscitationist'.