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Jan 18, 2016

Sonowars continues to find new ways to make Ultrasound teaching exciting, inspirational and most importantly informative. The team of James Rippey, Matt Dawson, Mike Mallin and Andrian Goudie are back with an all-star supporting cast. Keep an eye out for the light sabre, simulating ultrasound guided venous canulation as...


Jan 14, 2016

The host response to injury is inflammation.

The inflammatory response may have been naturally selected over millions of years of evolution to give the injured tissue the best chance of healing and recovering. On the other hand, over the last 50 years animal models of traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggest that fever,...


Jan 12, 2016

Making Transitions of Care Safe - Pat Croskerry

Summary by: Pat Croskerry

It is now well recognized that transferring the care of a patient from one caregiver to another is a vulnerable point in a patient’s care and a potential threat to patient safety. There may be many intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary...


Jan 12, 2016

The master of Dogmalysis himself, Cliff Reid, challenges current practices in prehospital and emergency medicine. Warning listeners to be skeptical, Cliff dissects the dogma of acute crush injuries and spinal immobilization. He also explores the false dichotomy of “scoop and run vs. stay and play”. Cliff reminds us...


Jan 7, 2016

Kevin Fong is an astrophysicist, astronaut and anaesthetist who gives an incredibly entertaining talk about human space exploration and our dreams of a manned mission to MARS. This is a mission that stands on the boundary between science fiction and science fact. A mission that would be a minimum of 1000 days in length...