In the past two decades, airway management has been revolutionized by the development of video laryngoscopy, hyperangulated blade geometry,...
Archive for month: April, 2017
Delivering a presentation is a skill like any other yet few folk are actually develop this skill they merely...
Prick with a Needle
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Anaesthetist, Communication, London, medicine, music, 0Musical genius Suman Biswas (@amateursuman) gave one of the most popular talks at SMACCDUB: A Prick with a Needle....
The FemInEM Story
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, feminem, feminism, SMACCDub, women in medicine, 0We accept that knowledge translation is critical to the practice of emergency medicine, yet when it comes to the...
How Medical Students Can Choreograph Their Own Education
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, continious medical education, Debriefing, deliberate practice, educational theory, FOAMed, making experts, medical education, Medical Simulation, Peer to Peer teaching, performance, SMACCDub, 0More than a hundred years ago Osler moved medical education to the bedside. Somehow today, most medical education still...
Playing the Long Game: Commitment, marginal gains and self-compassion
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Coaching, development, medical education, SMACCDub, sports psychology, training, 0Caring for the critically unwell is an important and difficult task. So preparing our people to meet this challenge...
Going Wild: Lessons from Wilderness Medicine
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, austere, disaster, extreme, improvisation, Physiology, pragmatic, remote, self-sufficiency, SMACCDub, wilderness, Wilderness medicine, 0Wilderness and expedition medicine is the epitome of practical, pragmatic, minimalist and thoughtful care. Austere and extreme environments require...
Oh s**t, they’re bombing our hospital! Is this a new paradigm for war?
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Afghanistan MSF Hospital, Doctors without Borders, Kunduz, Kunduz Hospital, Kunduz Hospital Airstrike, Kunduz Hospital Attack, Kunduz Hospital Bombing, Kunduz Trauma Centre, Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, MSF hospital bombing, NotATarget, SMACCDub, Syria Hospital Attacks, Syria hospital bombing, Targeting Hospitals, Yemen hospital attacks, Yemen hospital bombings, 0After five months working in the ICU and ED of the Médecins Sans Frontières run Kunduz Trauma Centre (KTC)...
PURE: Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, 0The World Health Organization notes that 80-90% of all diagnostic problems could potentially be solved by basic radiograph (x-ray)...
The Aorta Will %$#@!& You Up
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Aortic dissection DDimer Treatment Controversies, SMACCDub, 0The talk focuses on why clinicians miss the diagnosis on aortic dissection. It breaks down the key pearls on...