What if they things that healthcare practitioners think are important aren’t the same things that patients think are important? Natalie May & Roisin McNamara talk to a patient – a young person who attended the Emergency Department with impending airway obstruction necessitating emergent intubation and intensive care admission – about her experiences of the Emergency Department and ICU, what was good about the care she experienced and what we as clinicians can do or think about differently to provide a better patient experience to those children and young people who need us most.
What’s It Like to be a Young Person with Critical Illness?
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Fighting Ebola in Guinea
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, bush talk, ebola treatment centre, ebola virus disease, epidemic, Guinea, haemorrhagic fever, medical evacuation, 0
Life as a doctor in an Ebola treatment centre in West Africa
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Things That Scare Me
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, bleeding, death, paediatric surgery, Trauma, 0
In our professional and private lives there are things that scare us, how we manage that fear defines us.
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Prick with a Needle
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Anaesthetist, Communication, London, medicine, music, 0
Musical genius Suman Biswas (@amateursuman) gave one of the most popular talks at SMACCDUB: A Prick with a Needle....
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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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A world of new threats
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, disaster plan, mass casualties, Multi site terrorist attack, penetrating trauma, prehospital damage control, prehospital trauma care, Resilience, 0
Terrorism is a new threat for pre hospital care specialists. Even if you're experienced in trauma patient management expect...
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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, 0
A bare knuckle pit fight between Oli Flower & Simon Finfer over when to transfuse in acute brain injury…...
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Understanding Emergency Medicine as a Complex System
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, complex, personalized, precision, systems, 0
Systems thinking can help providers learn how to treat our patients as individuals and not just as the bucket...
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Controversies in Brain Death
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, 0
There is a need for international consensus in the determination of brain death to address the challenges and controversies...