Describing the importance of patient handover and the critical time when the pre-hospital practitioner will give this information to the receiving hospital staff. Using an analogy of the characters that appear in cowboy films, the preacher stands out as one who usually plays a small but significant role in getting his message across. We will compare this to the modern day practitioner and how they should achieve the objective of giving a good handover to the receivers, who may or may not be believers.
Hospital Handover of Major Trauma – Make them Listen
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DNR Should Be The Default: PRO – Alex Psirides, CON – Sara Gray
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, CPR, default, DNAR, DNR, Do Not Resuscitate, End of life, End Of Life Care, Ethics, Futility, Resuscitation, SMACCDub, 0
Alex Psirides – PRO The application of ‘CPR-for-all’ is the ultimate evidence drift. A treatment that is completely appropriate...
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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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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...
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The ABC of ICU – The A is for antibiotics
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, antibiotics, Resuscitation, Sepsis, 0
We debate perpetually how best to resuscitate patients - ABC! For the critically ill, septic patient the only therapy...
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The challenges in the prehospital management of sick kids
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Uncategorized, paediatics, prehospital, SMACCDub, Trauma, 0
Fight, Flight and (more commonly) Freeze are common reactions when faced with the critically ill child. In this talk...
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Leadership is a Trait of an Individual
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Leadership, Pearls and Pitfalls, Professionalism, Resilience, 0
Leadership is not particularly a male or a female quality. It is a trait of an individual. “You know...
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Geriatric EM: Our new USP?
Ka, , 2015, 2016, The Talks smaccChicago 2015, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, elderly emergency care, elderly falls, emergency care, frailty, Geriatrics, 0
This talk will outline the importance and significance for the specialty in getting to grips with managing elderly patients...
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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...