Paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest Jon McCormack gives you what you need to know in the case of paediatric blunt traumatic cardiac arrest. This is a rare but deadly occurrence. Data shows that the population incidence for paediatric blunt traumatic arrest is 1 in 100 000. The majority of cases are male with a median age…
Cardiac Arrest and Oxygen by Stephen Bernard Stephen Bernard shares his thoughts and the current evidence for using oxygen for cardiac arrest patients. Oxygen is ubiquitous in society! You can buy it in bottles and there are even oxygen cafes. This is especially true in hospitals where oxygen is used frequently and often without much…
Oxygen, Resuscitation & Clinical Outcomes in Critical Care by John Myburgh John Myburgh speaks about the use of oxygen in resuscitation and clinical outcomes in critical care. For the last 30 years, clinical understanding of haemodynamic resuscitation has been based on physiological paradigms. These paradigms have focused on convective oxygen delivery. Notably, most of these…
Meditation, Performance and Critical Care: Scott Weingart Scott Weingart discusses the scientific aspects of meditation. He believes meditation is to the mind what exercise is to the body. There are two types of meditation: focussed attention meditation or vipassana, and contemplative meditation. Generally, people exist in a default mode network. This happens when we are…
Remote Ischaemic Conditioning and Critical Care by Paul Young Paul Young discusses remote ischaemic preconditioning, specifically, he delves into the pitfalls of clinical research. 2016 was the 30th anniversary of ischaemic preconditioning. So what is remote ischaemic preconditioning? Remote ischaemic preconditioning is the magical offspring of ischaemic preconditioning and refers to the phenomenon whereby brief…
Evidence Based Medicine in Prehospital Resuscitation Marius Rehn examines the difficulties and importance of evidence based medicine in prehospital resuscitation. Notably, combining academic activity with pre- and in-hospital clinical practice is hard work. Being an academic in a flight suit can be quite lonely. Marius wants this to change and is passionate about increasing the…
Precision Emergency Medicine & outcomes by Anand Swaminathan Anand Swaminathan brings precision emergency medicine and outcomes in critical care into the light. He will convince you to start calling diseases for what they are and as a result start offering the proper treatments and care. All disease exist on a spectrum. You can’t treat one…
Geriatric Emergency Medicine by Sue Mason Sue Mason gives you her take on Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Sue’s bread and butter is managing the elderly in the Emergency Department. It is not a sexy topic and there are few gizmos and gadgets, but it is very important. How big is the problem? Patients over 65 years…
An alternate future for Emergency Medicine: Michelle Johnston Dr Michelle Johnston talks about dystopian futures and the relevance of emergency medicine in forming such futures. Literature can provide insights into the two types of future we can expect: an optimistic, technologically advanced future as showcased in the movie “Blade Runner” or a dystopian future as…
Rural Trauma Resuscitation and Prevention Mike Abernethy runs you through the pitfalls and challenges of rural trauma resuscitation and prevention. The farm is a dangerous workplace. Accidents have an unusually high morbidity and mortality not only for the worker, but also his/her family members. The reasons are multi-factorial but are the result of a complex…
