Jun 30, 2021
Making a medical diagnosis with limited information is at the heart of emergency medicine.
Emergency physicians often have to make decisions without all of the information.
Dr Anand Swaminathan shares a case where EMS rolled into emergency with a patient who was short of breath, hypotensive, tachycardic and...
Jun 29, 2021
Jun 25, 2021
How a Crisis Resource Management failure led to a full-blown medical emergency.
It is estimated that 70% of avoidable deaths in healthcare involve a breakdown of the principles of CRM.
Crisis resource management, involves seven crucial steps:
Jun 22, 2021
From #CodaZero Live, David Carr chats with Sara Gray about treating recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
A 50-year-old male arrives in the emergency room with chest pain. Upon examination, it is clear that he is experiencing recurrent episodes of V-tach.
Defibrillation isn’t working, so what happens next?
Treating...
Jun 18, 2021
From #SMACC2019 Vic Brazil, Eve Purdy, Jenny Rudolph, Chris Hicks, Simon Carley & Jenny Vaughan discuss learning and culture in healthcare.
Simulation is a great learning tool but how do we organise simulation activities when we are resource and time poor?
How do we translate learnings from Sim into the real world,...