In providing critical care we sometimes need to make immediate decisions on who’s dead and who’s not. How are...
Author Archive for: KateReynolds
Bayes 2016: A Diagnostic Odyssey
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Bayes, Diagnostics, Probability, RISK, theorem, 0The modern application of Bayes' theorem in Emergency Medicine
Lessons from the Battlefield
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, blood transfusion, haemorrhage, MERT, PHEM, pre-hospital, RSI, Team, Tourniquet, Unexpected Survivor, 0Sepsis can be subtle and elusive; diagnostic tools such as point of care lactate, end-tidal CO2 monitoring and validated...
The Perils of Peer Review
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, bmj, iconoclastic, journals, Peer review, publishing, quality assurance, richard smith, 0Peer review is central to science, but ironically is faith rather than evidence based in that it lacks evidence...
I am going to tell you how to spot some fraudsters by analysing their made up numbers.
Sepsis—The Dark Knight: Prehospital Diagnosis and Treatment
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Sepsis, 0Sepsis can be subtle and elusive; diagnostic tools such as point of care lactate, end-tidal CO2 monitoring and validated...
What I learned from Dr John Hinds
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, clinical trial, data safety and monitoring board, DSMB, 0The evolution of medical evidence from what we think to what we know will be reviewed in an historical...
The Rise of Medical Evidence
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, clinical trial, data safety, DSMB, monitoring board, 0The evolution of medical evidence from what we think to what we know will be reviewed in an historical...
The role of the endothelium as a mediator of critical illness
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, ARDS, critically ill, endothelium, Sepsis, 0The systemic and pulmonary endothelium is increasingly recognised as important in both the development and resolution of critical illness...
Life From Death: Our role in organ donation and death by neurological criteria
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, ICU, Neuro, organ donation, Trauma, 0An overview brain death, management of the brain dead and organ donation from a North American perspective.