Wilderness and expedition medicine is the epitome of practical, pragmatic, minimalist and thoughtful care. Austere and extreme environments require...
Archive for year: 2017
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...
Management of extra-cranial injuries in patients with TBI
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Hypotensive resuscitation, multi-trauma, Not just TBI!, orthopedic injuries, SMACCDub, transfusion, 0Patients with TBI (traumatic brain injury) often have concomitant systemic injuries that complicate the management of the TBI. How...
A team of experts is not automatically an expert team. As such, we need practical strategies (and not fluffy...
As more people survive episodes of severe sepsis the serious long term adverse effects on health and quality of...
Remembering Rory: Sepsis and Learning from Error
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, medical error, pediatric sepsis, Rory Staunton, Sepsis, 0We will walk together through the events surrounding the tragic death of Rory Staunton, caused by sepsis. The focus...
Hospital Handover of Major Trauma – Make them Listen
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Ambulance, emergency, Handover, Paramedic, Patient handover, SMACCDub, Trauma, 0Describing the importance of patient handover and the critical time when the pre-hospital practitioner will give this information to...
Evaluating the evidence supporting Hypothermia after severe brain injury.