Patients with TBI (traumatic brain injury) often have concomitant systemic injuries that complicate the management of the TBI. How...
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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...
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,...
Should we Transfuse the Sick Child in Africa?
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Africa, child, emergency care, severe anaemia, SMACCDub, transfusion, trial, 0In sub-Saharan Africa, where infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies are common, severe anaemia is a common cause of paediatric...
Why your hospital is broken
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Deteriorating Patient, Medical Emergency Teams, MET, Rapid response systems, RRT, SMACCDub, 0As patients becomes more complex, the tribal systems we use to look after them remain stuck in the 18th...
Tactical Medicine in Response to the Active Shooter
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Active Shooter, Crisis, ems, HEMS, heroism, high pressure situation, Human Performance, Performance Psychology, PHARM, prehospital, safe, Safety, SMACCDub, 0Cops and robbers, cowboy and Indians, and military movies have filled the minds of generations of healthcare providers with...
Biomarkers in the ED – useful or useless
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Biomarkers, decision making, SMACCDub, uncertainty, 0All biomarkers are awesome predictors of badness. Elevated hS-troponins after non-cardiac surgery or an acute exacerbation of COPD are...
Fatigue, the enemy unseen
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, burnout, Fatigue, sleep deprivation, SMACCDub, 0Critical care practice in and out of hospital is a demanding field of medicine. It attracts a certain type...