Paediatric major trauma is rare and terrifying. Seriously injured children need good care but a number of factors (the relatively unusual presentations, their size, the way they communicate, their parents..!) make looking after them feel a lot harder than it really is. So what do clinicians really need to know to look after paediatric major trauma? We need to understand differences in physiological responses to injury (and how these can fox our triage assessments), differences in patterns and mechanisms of injury (and how these correspond to the way we diagnose, image and manage injuries in children) and how we can best prepare ourselves to make sure we look after these children well.
Minor Injuries? Major Trauma!
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The Aorta Will %$#@!& You Up
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Aortic dissection DDimer Treatment Controversies, SMACCDub, 0
The talk focuses on why clinicians miss the diagnosis on aortic dissection. It breaks down the key pearls on...
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SMACC Force Rant: Is it the Skillset or Background that Count?
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care, ATACC, Critical Care Paramedic, Critical Care Physician, Critical Care Retrieval, Immediate Care, Paramedic, PHARM, PHEM, Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine, Prehospital care, Prehospital Doctor, Prehospital Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Training, SMACCDub, 0
In a 2 min rant about medical tribalism, Dr. van der Velde questions which medical specialty, if any, owns...
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EM is a Failed Paradigm PRO: Scott Weingart CON: Simon Carley
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, emergency medicine, Failure, future, scott weingart, simon carley, SMACCDub, 0
Scott Weingart presents his views on emergency medicine being a failed paradigm, where Simon Carley presents the opposing view....
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1984. Dystopian Literature and Emergency Medicine
Ka, , The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Bureaucracy, Climate change, Dystopia, Futurism, literature, 0
The role of physical and chemical restraints, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, and ketamine, and the diagnostic and therapeutic priorities for the...
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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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The Problem of Disproportionate Critical Care
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, appropriate, burnout, conflicts, disproportionate, Health Care providers, ICU, Social normalization of deviance, 0
Too much is not the answer for not enough
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How Ultrasound Makes You Better
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Algorithm, BLUE, Creativity, Julia Child, Point-of-care Ultrasound, Protocol, RUSH, 0
Algorithms and protocols, which integrate Point-of-Care Ultrasound, help refine diagnoses and treatment plans. However, these are not absolutes. You...
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Submassive PE should be thrombolysed – Pro: Anand Swaminathan Con: Iain Beardsell
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, PE, pulmonary embolus, thrombolysis, 0
Anand Swaminathan PE is a spectrum of disease and patients on different parts of the spectrum should be treated...