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Archive for category: The Talks smaccDUB 2016
Things That Scare Me
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, bleeding, death, paediatric surgery, Trauma, 0In our professional and private lives there are things that scare us, how we manage that fear defines us.
Leadership is a Trait of an Individual
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Leadership, Pearls and Pitfalls, Professionalism, Resilience, 0Leadership is not particularly a male or a female quality. It is a trait of an individual. “You know...
Publishing and the future of critical care knowledge dissemination
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, data sharing, future, journals, publication, science, 1Journals have been the main way to publish science for 400 years, but the system is no longer fit...
The ABC of ICU – The A is for antibiotics
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, antibiotics, Resuscitation, Sepsis, 0We debate perpetually how best to resuscitate patients - ABC! For the critically ill, septic patient the only therapy...
How I use inhaled Nitric Oxide -iNO
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, critical care, iNO, intensive care transport, nitric oxide, NO, prehospital, Resuscitation, retrieval, 0Inhaled nitric oxide is extremely usefull for creating a "bridge" to other options as well as in resuscitation on...
I’m not dead
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, hyperkalemia, hypothermia, Lazarus phenomenon, Resuscitation, ROSC, submersion, survival of extremes, 0In providing critical care we sometimes need to make immediate decisions on who’s dead and who’s not. How are...
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...