Prehospital and Critical Care Responses to Terrorist Attacks by Pierre Carli For retrieval medicine specialists and prehospital care providers, terrorist attacks are a new and unique threat. Pierre affirms, terrorist attacks are not accidents. They are a targeted human activity whose purpose is to kill, injure, and inflict the maximum amount of human casualty as…
Ciaran McKenna discusses 3D printing of high fidelity simulation equipment. Simulation training is useful, but it is often a costly exercise. However, according to Ciaran McKenna, it doesn’t have to be. Ciaran shares his experience of using 3D printing to create simulation equipment. According to Ciaran, anyone with basic computer skills is capable of making their…
Medical Informatics improving healthcare outcomes Diana Badcock begins the talk by discussing her decision to take up the role of Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO). Diana was optimistic about taking this job. However, she left the job after a year. Though she failed in the job, Diana thinks she learnt a lot about failing with…
Ultrasound Improves Resuscitation Outcomes: Resa Lewiss Resa Lewiss tells you how ultrasound improves resuscitation outcomes in critical care. Ultrasound helps you make more accurate diagnoses. It allows you to perform procedures with fewer complications, and ultrasound enables you to be more time and cost efficient. However, there may be more to ultrasound – Resa enlightens…
Technology Improving Healthcare: Haney Mallemat Haney Mallemat informs you how technology is improving healthcare. Haney’s talk is grounded in a patient experience. Jim is a gentleman from a small farm in a rural area of United States. His farm is everything to him and his wife and daughter. When Jim got seriously sick, he had…
Healthcare Inequality, Ethics & Developing Countries by Flavia Machado Flavia Machado gives you the ins and outs of a day in the life of an ICU doctor working in Brazil. She addresses healthcare inequality, ethics, and the challenges she faces in a developing country. By sharing a blow-by-blow account of a day at work, Flavia…
Decompressive Craniectomy in Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction by Andrew Chow Andrew Chow gives a rapid breakdown of malignant cerebral artery (MCA) infarction and the utility of decompressive craniectomy. An MCA infarction is an ischaemic stroke, affecting the total or subtotal area of the MCA. It involves the basal ganglia (at least partially) and may involve…
Lead Poisoning in developing countries Natalie Thrutle educates on the critical issue of lead poisoning in developing countries. Critical care means different things to different people. In the context of lead poisoning, you may or may not think of developing countries such as Nigeria. The response to the Zamfara state, lead poisoning outbreak, in Northern…
Emergency Response & the Ebola Outbreak Nikki Blackwell tells her story of the emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in Nzerekore, Guinea. She chronicles the enormous challenges of providing care to some of the most vulnerable people in the world, in one of the most under resourced and challenging environments. The Ebola virus was first…
Stress Metabolism Adaptation & Critical Illness: Mervyn Singer In this podcast, Mervyn Singer talks about the link between stress and multiple organ failure. Often, the organs involved in multi-organ failure show no signs of structural damage or cell damage that would indicate these organs might be under stress. Stress might cause functional damage rather than…
