The development of Helicopter EMS (HEMS, or as the Federal Aviation Administration recently coined it: “Helicopter Air Ambulance” or...
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What’s It Like to be a Young Person with Critical Illness?
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, CYP experience, paediatric critical care, patient experience, pediatric critical care, SMACCDub, 0What if they things that healthcare practitioners think are important aren’t the same things that patients think are important?...
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, 0Maxime Valois Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is gaining widespread acceptance in the various medical sub-specialties and is progressively being integrated...
EM is a Failed Paradigm PRO: Scott Weingart CON: Simon Carley
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, emergency medicine, Failure, future, scott weingart, simon carley, SMACCDub, 0Scott Weingart presents his views on emergency medicine being a failed paradigm, where Simon Carley presents the opposing view....
EM Year in Review
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, critical appraisal, cutting edge, emergency medicine, literature, publishing, science, SMACCDub, updates, 0Ryan Radecki There are nearly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way – and almost that many articles published...
after smacc Zen and the Art of Trauma Surgery
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Trauma Surgery, 0Karim Brohi brings gives his perspective on the mindset of a trauma surgeon. He talks about how we can...
Patients who present with pulseless electrical activity (PEA) arrest have a high mortality. The treatment of PEA requires finding...
Arrested Developments
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, ERC guidelines, neonatal resuscitation, paediatric life support, Paediatric resuscitation, pediatric life support, pediatric resuscitation, SMACCDub, 0When was your last paediatric/neonatal life support course update? Did it include the latest recommendations from the European Resuscitation...
Minor Injuries? Major Trauma!
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, Paediatric major trauma, smaccMINI, 0Paediatric major trauma is rare and terrifying. Seriously injured children need good care but a number of factors (the...
Taking Outdoor Education Indoors
Phoebe Adams, , 2016, The Talks smaccDUB 2016, adult learning theory, MedEd, prehospital education, reflective practice, smaccFORCE, 0What can hospital specialties learn from teaching and training in prehospital and retrieval medicine? A medical education enthusiast’s thoughts...