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Feb 16, 2017

Motorcycle Trauma Simulation and...


Feb 14, 2017

Ashley Liebig is a senior flight nurse and helicopter rescue specialist with STAR Flight.

She talks with passion about her job, her vocation.

Ashley divulges a deeply personal and deeply traumatic story from the SMACC stage.

Pre-hospital medicine, emergency medicine and critical care are difficult jobs. There is a human...


Feb 13, 2017

Nikki Blackwell provides an insight into critical care in humanitarian emergencies.

Through her experiences in hunger emergencies, epidemics, natural disasters and conflict zones, Nikki has gained a wealth of wisdom and lessons.

She shares these from the SMACC stage.

Nikki talks about some of the practical things she...


Feb 12, 2017

Kathryn Maitland describes the challenges faced with oxygen therapy as an emergency intervention in critical illness in African children.

Where Kathryn works, in East Africa, there is no access to intensive care. Caring for critically ill children is all done in the Emergency Department.

70% of the global burden of...


Feb 11, 2017

Francesca Rubulotta argues in favour of the ICU being no place for the elderly.

She describes the ICU as a horrible monster, a very dangerous place. Furthermore, she suggests the ICU is on par with climbing a mountain in terms of risk and exposure to catastrophise.

She continues to make the point that once a person...