Mar 20, 2017
In this entertaining talk, Ronan O’Leary discusses conflict in critical care.
Ronan explains how to make a team decision about whether or not to perform a decompressive craniectomy.
Undertaking a decompressive craniectomy is perhaps one of the most challenging decisions we face within critical care.
Ronan contends...
Mar 19, 2017
Martin Smith persuades you that controversies in brain death should not, and do not, exist.
Almost fifty years since the concept of brain death was first introduced, some individuals and whole nations still struggle with its concept and justification.
Many controversies continue to surround brain death, although there...
Mar 15, 2017
Hazel Talbot gives her insights from working in neonatal and paediatric retrieval.
She delivers her talk with all the passion and dedication that she brings to her work as a neonatal and paediatric transport consultant.
Equipment failure, rapidly deteriorating children and miscommunication are all common challenges that...
Mar 14, 2017
Simon Finfer argues that the transfusion threshold should be 70 g/L. Simon first raises the Choosing Wisely Guidelines for Critical Care.
These state that one should not transfuse red blood cells in haemodynamically stable patients with a haemoglobin concentration of greater than 70g/L.
He continues to discuss the...
Mar 13, 2017
Myths persist because they are essential to the human experience
and our development as a society.
They fill the gap between what we know and what we think we
know.
Where does this gap hurt us the most? In our vulnerable
populations, for example, in our care of children.
The “myth incarnate” in medicine:...