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Dec 27, 2016

Michele Domico presents a talk on the pitfalls of common paediatric resuscitative manoeuvres in paediatric cardiac patients. Emergency and critical care physicians are all well accustomed to items such as oxygen, bolus adrenaline, intubation and cardioversion. However, as Michele explains, these ‘go...


Dec 26, 2016

Deirdre Murphy presents everything that can go wrong in cardiac surgery. Deirdre will impress on you that cardiac surgery is by no means a safe procedure! Murphy’s Law stipulates everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Subsequently, Finagle’s corollary will tell us, it will be at the worst possible moment. In...


Dec 25, 2016

The practice of emergency medicine is no longer a one size fits all approach. Furthermore, most of your patients are not usually 'average' as described in journal articles. With more data, newer analytic techniques, and a better understanding of pathologies, we can isolate the exact and most appropriate therapies for...


Dec 22, 2016

When was your last paediatric/neonatal life support course update? Did it include the latest recommendations from the European Resuscitation Council (2015)? NO?! Well, let's have a look at the very latest consensus recommendations for the resuscitation of children in cardiorespiratory arrest and for neonates at birth...


Dec 20, 2016

Peter Brindley explains how burnout affects us all. It affects the cost, quality of care, organisational culture, performance and patient outcomes.

Burnout is fatigue, loss of ideals, purposelessness, presentism and the sense of being under-appreciated. It is not tiredness, exhaustion, boredom, mid-life crisis,...