A Speech Pathology Perspective on Sepsis with Amy Freeman-Sanderson Sepsis causes organ and tissue dysfunction in response to severe infection, resulting in significant physical and cognitive morbidities. For patients diagnosed with severe sepsis, admission to an intensive care unit and use of an artificial airway are often required. The sequalae of severe sepsis necessitating…
Dr Greg Kelly – a paediatric intensivist at Westmead Children’s Hospital – is today’s guest, on the #Coda22 podcast, during which he discusses a little girl called Abbie, who has lived in ICU for almost two years, and how she represents a very important group of patients – who are a tiny fraction of admissions,…
In this week’s episode of the #CodaPodcast, Gemma Figtree – a Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital and Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney – discusses the profound inequality of gender issues. She talks about how lots of people don’t recognise that heart disease is the biggest killer of women in the world…
In this week’s episode of the #CodaPodcast, Dr Daniel Nour – who founded Street Side Medics a not-for-profit, GP-led mobile medical service for people experiencing homelessness – in August 2020 talks about his grave concern for the homeless who have gone untreated for years. He talks about how it was seeing the inequality in healthcare…
There is a moment that regularly occurs in the life of a clinician working at a major trauma service – where a rotating registrar, a keen sponge – appears, and a discussion about learning goals for the rotation is had. Its always about trauma, I’m here to learn procedures, intercostal catheter insertion, thoracotomies etc etc…
A National Sustainable Healthcare Program The chair, Kate Charlesworth opens by explaining that the healthcare system has a big problem – we are, in effect, producing our own patients. We use huge amounts of resources; produce vast amounts of waste and have a big carbon footprint. Globally, if the healthcare system was a country, it…
The Next Industrial Revolution with Heidi Lee Beyond Zero Emissions is an independent think tank that shows through research and innovative solutions how Australia can prosper in a zero-emissions economy. Over the past 10 years we have published research on how to decarbonise sectors of the economy such as energy, transport, buildings and heavy industry.…
2 weeks: a case from India Ankur Verma opens the podcast by telling his listeners that he’s going to share with them something that happened during the time that Delta was in its dreadful stages in both Australia and India. He goes on to talk about a case that took place during the Delta wave,…
COVID19 through the looking glass: Intrapartum Maternity Care Bec Szabo – an obstetrician, gynaecologist, and medical educator – begins the podcast by asking the audience to go back to Melbourne with her on a journey through the looking glass. She notes that while taking her listeners to Wonderland might be a bit quirky, but that…
Is Burn Out Burning Us Out? In this week’s podcast Liz Crowe – an advanced clinician social worker who has worked in Brisbane’s major children’s hospitals in intensive care, emergency departments and cancer wards – begins the podcast with the question – is burn out burning us out? In this podcast, Liz goes on to…
