A team of experts is not automatically an expert team. As such, we need practical strategies (and not fluffy...
Author Archive for: KateReynolds
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...
Evaluating the evidence supporting Hypothermia after severe brain injury.
Stroke Emergency! Don’t Have a Stroke …
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, endovascular, stroke, thrombolysis, 0Is time really brain? Does tPA have a future? Is the medieval era of stroke finally ending, or will...
Neurosurgeons aren’t idiots, honestly.
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, decompressive crainectomy, Neurocritical care, neurosurgery, Trauma, traumatic brain injury, workplace culture, 0Will we ever work out which patients benefit from a decompressive crainectomy?
There is a need for international consensus in the determination of brain death to address the challenges and controversies...
Paed-Iconoclasm: Breaking the Myths without Breaking Your Patient
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, California, dogma, dogmalysis, emergency medicine, Harbor-UCLA, Horeczko, Myths, paediatrics, pediatrics, PEM, Tim, Tim Horeczko, USA, 0Myths and medical dogma fill the gap between what we know and what we don’t know. Learn “Defense Against...
Into the Deep: Developing The Resuscitative Collective Unconscious
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, human factors, Mental practice, stress preparation, Teams, 0Mood manipulation, self-regulation, mental preparation, stress inoculation -- this is the vocabulary of elite teams, and central to the...
Learning from Excellence
Ka, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, appreciation, learning, motivation, quality, Safety, 0A call to learn from what goes well in healthcare