Dec 9, 2018
A no-holds barred series of 6 provocative medical interrogations. We challenge the state of research, social media, pharmacology, social work, women in medicine, medicine in the developed work, and the health of healthcare workers. It should be novel, it may get heated, and it is not scripted. Sometimes to comfort the...
Dec 4, 2018
Raed Arafat describes the amazing lessons he has learnt about functional systems for emergencies, mass casualties and disasters. SMURD (Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication) is in Emergency Rescue Service in Romania. It was set up by Raed Arafat in 1990 to respond to a largely non-existent and...
Dec 3, 2018
Haney Mallemat states the case for ultrasound in cardiac arrest resuscitation. He tells the story of Stephen, a 43-year-old male who suffers a cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, whilst looking for reversible causes with a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE), chest compressions stopped, and Stephen died. Enter...
Nov 30, 2018
Pik Mukherji will change your mind on assessing risk and benefit in resuscitation. There is a bent towards action in the Emergency Department. This is for a few reasons. We are risk adverse – we do not want to miss the acutely sick patient. We do not want to miss the patient that “falls of the cliff”. In fact, as...
Nov 28, 2018
Brandon loves wavy lines. He will draw the curtain on the use of continuous EEG in neuro critical care. Brandon will first take you back to medical school with some neuroanatomy and physiology to underpin you understanding of the EEG. He then steps you through what an EEG is telling you. Bumps, lines, amplitudes and...