When was your last paediatric/neonatal life support course update? Did it include the latest recommendations from the European Resuscitation Council (2015)? NO?! Well, let’s have a look at the very latest consensus recommendations for the resuscitation of children in cardiorespiratory arrest and for neonates at birth – and explore any controversies therein.
Arrested Developments
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POCUS is a Problem – PRO: Maxime Valois, CON: John Christian Fox
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, esotericism, human factors, mathematical intimidation, medicine, POCUS, scientific revolutions, SMACCDub, test characteristics, Ultrasound, 0
Maxime Valois Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is gaining widespread acceptance in the various medical sub-specialties and is progressively being integrated...
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Why your hospital is broken
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Deteriorating Patient, Medical Emergency Teams, MET, Rapid response systems, RRT, SMACCDub, 0
As patients becomes more complex, the tribal systems we use to look after them remain stuck in the 18th...
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It is time to throw away the hard cervical collar – PRO: Darren Braude, CON: Karim Brohi
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Cervical spine immobilization, controversy, debate, SMACCDub, spinal motion restriciton, spinal protection, Trauma, 0
Darren Braude and Karim Brohi battle it out in the #SMACCDub Cage Match ‘It is time to throw away...
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Why we need palliative care everywhere
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, emergency medicine, End of life, Palliative Care, palliative medicine, quality of life, 0
Exploring dogma and myths about knowledge, skills and training of the 'resuscitationist'.
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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, 0
Myths persist because they are essential to the human experience and our development as a society. They fill the...
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Thin-Slicing in the ED
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, emergency medicine, Spectrum of Disease, Thin-Slicing, 0
All disease exist on a spectrum. You can’t treat one end of the spectrum the same way you treat...
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Paed-Iconoclasm: Breaking the Myths without Breaking Your Patient
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, California, dogma, dogmalysis, emergency medicine, Harbor-UCLA, Horeczko, Myths, paediatrics, pediatrics, PEM, Tim, Tim Horeczko, USA, 0
Myths and medical dogma fill the gap between what we know and what we don’t know. Learn “Defense Against...
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Lessons from the Battlefield
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, blood transfusion, haemorrhage, MERT, PHEM, pre-hospital, RSI, Team, Tourniquet, Unexpected Survivor, 0
Sepsis can be subtle and elusive; diagnostic tools such as point of care lactate, end-tidal CO2 monitoring and validated...