Multi-organ failure is a manifestation of decompensated stress; de-stressing should improve outcomes
Author Archive for: KateReynolds
Paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Major Haemorrhage, paediatric, paediatric critical care, Traumatic Cardiac Arrest, 0Paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest Summary by: Jon McCormack Recently published national guidelines and case series evidence supports a standardised...
Recent data has suggested that oxygen increases myocardial injury in patients with STEMI and may increase neurological injury after...
Does oxygen delivery matter?
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, catecholamines, convection, diffusion, dobutamine, dogmalysis, Oxygen, 0The belief that pushing oxygen delivery with synthetic catecholamines is based on a physiological fallacy, fuelled by Bad Pharma
My opening talk at SMACCdub was on meditation: vipassana and stoic negative contemplation.
The magic of remote ischaemic preconditioning
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, acute myocardial infarction, Cardiac Surgery, ischaemic preconditioning, ischemic preconditioning, X remote ischemic preconditioning, 0All you need to know about the promise and current reality of remote ischaemic preconditioning for clinical practice.
How to do Prehospital Research
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Audit, Epidemiology, Evidence, HEMS, prehospital, Quality Improvement, Research, Resource-Effective, 0How can you build evidence by combining academic activity with pre-hospital critical care practice.
Thin-Slicing in the ED
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, emergency medicine, Spectrum of Disease, Thin-Slicing, 0All disease exist on a spectrum. You can’t treat one end of the spectrum the same way you treat...
Geriatric EM: Our new USP?
Ka, , 2015, 2016, The Talks smaccChicago 2015, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, elderly emergency care, elderly falls, emergency care, frailty, Geriatrics, 0This talk will outline the importance and significance for the specialty in getting to grips with managing elderly patients...
1984. Dystopian Literature and Emergency Medicine
Ka, , The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Bureaucracy, Climate change, Dystopia, Futurism, literature, 0The role of physical and chemical restraints, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, and ketamine, and the diagnostic and therapeutic priorities for the...