Wilderness and expedition medicine is the epitome of practical, pragmatic, minimalist and thoughtful care. Austere and extreme environments require...
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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, 0After five months working in the ICU and ED of the Médecins Sans Frontières run Kunduz Trauma Centre (KTC)...
PURE: Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, 0The World Health Organization notes that 80-90% of all diagnostic problems could potentially be solved by basic radiograph (x-ray)...
The Aorta Will %$#@!& You Up
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Aortic dissection DDimer Treatment Controversies, SMACCDub, 0The talk focuses on why clinicians miss the diagnosis on aortic dissection. It breaks down the key pearls on...
Management of extra-cranial injuries in patients with TBI
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Hypotensive resuscitation, multi-trauma, Not just TBI!, orthopedic injuries, SMACCDub, transfusion, 0Patients with TBI (traumatic brain injury) often have concomitant systemic injuries that complicate the management of the TBI. How...
Hospital Handover of Major Trauma – Make them Listen
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Ambulance, emergency, Handover, Paramedic, Patient handover, SMACCDub, Trauma, 0Describing the importance of patient handover and the critical time when the pre-hospital practitioner will give this information to...
Small Packages, Big Lessons: Neonatal and paediatric retrieval
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, neonatal, 0Hazel Talbot provides an insightful look at neonatal and paediatric retrieval in her talk “Small Packages, Big Lessons”.
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, 0A bare knuckle pit fight between Oli Flower & Simon Finfer over when to transfuse in acute brain injury…...
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, 0Myths persist because they are essential to the human experience and our development as a society. They fill the...
Spotting the sick child
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, acute illness, childhood, cognitive overload, Paediatric emergencies, paediatric emergency medicine, paediatric physiology, PEM, psychology, SMACCDub, spotting the sick child, type 1 thinking, type 2 thinking, 0Reflecting on 26 years of frontline practice in paediatric emergency care: while there’s no substitute for knowledge and experience,...