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May 24, 2016

Rick Body’s SMACC Chicago talk 'Is compassion a Patients Right?' takes us on a journey of emotions in critical care.

Starting with his rendition of john Lennons ‘Love’. Body, explains the origin of the word compassion - a move to act based on someone else suffering, a sharing of suffering with.

Body, initially...


May 19, 2016

Andrew Healey takes us on an exploration of the early phases of donor management in ICU and Emergency Medicine in his heart felt SMACC Chicago talk Optimizing the Care of the Organ Donation Patient. Which focuses on the processes of managing donor patients and their families,  while they ride their ICU/ ED journey...


May 17, 2016

Jeremy Cohen took us on an Adrenal Function journey at SMACC Chicago with his talk Raging Hormones in Critical Care.

Cohen explores the natural roll of cortisol in the human body, various schools of thought and recent research in the areas of sepsis and cortisol resistance.


May 17, 2016

Trauma is Risky Business 

Deborah Stein SMACC Chicago talk Trauma is Risky Business - delves into the risk patients and physicians undergo when treating or being treated for Trauma. 

Stein’s speaks of the Risk Benefit Determination that physicians make daily and how this is used to best answer on going questions such...


May 12, 2016

Walter Eppich engages us on the topic of Interprofessional Communication: Challenges and Opportunities. 

 
Eppich describes communication as the engine of learning - providing it is coming from a psychologically 'safe' environment free from humiliation and punishment.
 
Eppich characterises a psychologically safe...