St John Ambulance NSW Member’s Retreat
I’ve just returned from this great meeting for St. Ambulance volunteers in the Blue Mountains. Lots of talks relevant to EMS and event medicine providers. I gave a talk on […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Clinical Education in the 21st Century
Here’s a Prezi I gave to a group of St. John Ambulance volunteers about the future of clinical education. A fairly lighthearted look at the use of social media and […]
Beta test
I love it when a controversy pops up in the intensive care literature. Especially when it doesn’t involve steroids. My favourite paper of last year was definitely FEAST because I […]
Behind the Mask
Here’s an article I wrote last year for the popular EMS journal/magazine JEMS. http://www.jems.com/behind-the-mask Or, if you’d prefer a downloadable online pdf format… http://jems.epubxp.com/i/34750 And… Here’s the presentation I occasionally […]
EEG is better then SSEP for prognostication at 24 hours in patients cooled post cardiac arrest
Interesting study from the Netherlands in this months CCM. Patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest (regardless of etiology or location) had continuous electroencephalogram (EEG) and daily somatosensory evoked […]
Intensivists achieve better outcomes for less money. Surprise!
I can’t even begin to fathom the health system in the USA. But one thing I do know is that in many hospitals critically ill patients in ICU aren’t looked […]
SMACC!
I know where I’ll be from the 11th to the 13th of March 2013, Sydney! To be fair I would probably have been in Sydney anyway because I live here. […]
Trauma Resuscitation in the ’80s!
Here’s a nostalgia evoking clip showing the old resus room in Auckland Public (now Auckland City) Hospital (hands up who remembers them!) Note the absence of gloves, the presence of […]
The Truth Will Set You free, but first it will piss you off.
Familiar territory to all of us no doubt. Australian intensivist Peter Saul talks about dying in the 21st century.
Shock Prezi
Here’s a Prezi I use to teach the basic concepts of shock to medical students on their ICU rotation. It would also be suitable for student paramedics and nurses. For […]
