Climate Change & Healthcare: Delivering Change Now Healthcare is responsible for 7% of Australia’s carbon emissions, consumes 10% of Australia’s GDP, and has numerous other adverse environmental effects. The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge…
The Future of Traumatic Brain Injury: Oli Flower Please note this episode was recorded in November 2018 as part of Brain, a CICM Neuro Special Interest Group meeting click here for more info. Oli Flower gives us a preview into the future of traumatic brain injury (TBI) management. It is late in the 21st century and a…
Rejecting Science Part 1: Medicine, Social Media and Misinformation Peter Brindley and Timothy Caulfield answer the big questions around how science and health are represented in the public sphere. What is science? When do we accept it and when do we reject it? The representation of science and medical information on social media has erupted…
Airway Choices – In The Era of Many Choices Reuben Strayer and Duncan Grossman discuss all things airway. Specifically, how the introduction of many airway technologies at once–some of them revolutionary, some not–have confused our airway strategy. So how can we incorporate the best of these technologies into contemporary airway management? They begin with a…
Continuous EEG in every ICU is the future Please note this episode was recorded in November 2018 as part of Brain, a CICM Neuro Special Interest Group meeting click here for more info. Terry O’Brien presents the evidence and recommendations around the use of continuous EEG. EEG is an old technology, first introduced clinically in…
Stroke Management in 2022: Part 2 Alex Rowell, Fahad Ashraf, Greg Selkirk & Luke Torre continue their discussion stroke management. In this talk they tackle imaging and treatment of stroke, including mechanical thrombectomy. Imaging is an enormous part of the process of stroke management. It is critical for diagnosis and stratifying patient treatments. The first imaging…
Stroke Management in 2022: Part 1 In this podcast, Alex Rowell, Fahad Ashraf, Greg Selkirk & Luke Torre review stroke management in 2022. Stroke management has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. In 2015, we proved the efficacy of mechanical thrombectomy. In 2018, we established evidence for mechanical thrombectomy beyond 6 hours in patients…
Emergency Management of Chronic Pain In the Emergency Management of Chronic Pain podcast, Duncan Grossman and Reuben Strayer discuss how and why patients with chronic pain present to the ED. Managing patients with chronic pain is challenging and often it feels like these patients present to the ED during every shift. But… is it as…
Disaster Survival and Wellbeing for Healthcare by Victoria Stephen & Roger Harris In this podcast, Roger Harris sits down for a second time with South African Emergency Physician, Victoria Stephen (Tori). Tori delves deeper into her first hand experience of the frightening political unrest and violence which erupted during the third wave of Covid-19 in…
Trauma Resuscitation and the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa In this podcast, Roger Harris interviews Victoria Stephen about her experience as an emergency physician in a regional South African hospital. Sadly, trauma resuscitation is a big part of working in Emergency Medicine in South Africa. Blunt force assaults and stab wounds are regular presentations. However,…
