Jan 30, 2019
Cognitive offloading for critical care retrieval by Stephen Hearns Everyone’s cognitive capacity is limited. It is easy to become overloaded and subsequently for our performance to be impacted. In medicine however, an overloaded cognitive capacity could be the difference between life and death. There is little room...
Jan 21, 2019
Critical care is viewed from different perspectives. How to clinicians, patients and families experience this life changing part of the health care...
Jan 16, 2019
Jack Iwashyna discusses his research into persistent critical illness in the ICU. While much of resuscitation focuses on the dramatic early minutes to hours of critical illness, many patients stay for days or weeks in the ICU. Jack wants to know, why do patients get stuck in the ICU, and what might we do better...
Jan 13, 2019
After getting his chance to interrogate SMACC Superstars the people finally get their chance to get their own back as everyman Iain Beardsell asks the questions that everyone wants an answer to. Covering a wide range of topics it will focus on Peter's previous SMACC talks, including subjects such as teamwork and burn...
Jan 10, 2019
The ethics of incidental findings: James Rippey Ultrasound is an incredibly useful tool for clinicians. According to James Rippey, there are two main groups of clinicians who use ultrasound. First, there are the POCUS providers, who have a specific, focused question and use the ultrasound machines accordingly. Then,...