Emergency physicians, emergency nurses, @acemonline, @CENAorg, @NursingCENNZ have been talking about preventable morbidity and mortality caused by access block for years. https://t.co/M7qFxDhDtE
One positive from today - pack of 20 RATs en route from Singapore for less than half the price of those that aren’t in stock/available here - that’s a win right?
Sooooo…
Guess where everyone goes when they don’t want to spend their entire day in line to get a Covid swab
Or can’t be bothered lining up at all..
Or
Feeling generally unwell from COVID…
Can we start talking about how NSW EDs & the staff are drowning yet?
#COVID19nsw
A couple of months ago I frustrated by the routine that had set in - coffee, work, train, eat, sleep x 5 days. Since Saturday I’ve been at work for 64/96 hours. This is going to take exceptional leadership to overcome. #COVID19nsw
Scott Morrison is cutting the Medicare rebate for hip, shoulder, hand and cardiac surgeries, meaning people will now have to pay thousands of dollars or go without.
No Australian should lose their mobility because they can’t afford the necessary medical care.
I think it is absolute bullshit for a HEMS service to claim "ICU or ED" level care without the intimate involvement of an experienced physician medical director in training, governance, and daily operations
This 👏🏼 Printing it on coloured paper, laminating it and sticking it on the ED wall does not (read again: does NOT) magically imprint knowledge +/- improve patient outcomes...
Soft foam cervical collar use in pts at risk for c-spine injury does not appear to increase risk for secondary spinal cord injury.
Multi‐centre consecutive case series of 2036 patients. Time to ditch the stiff neck. @NSWAmbulance@nswitim@eci_nswaci
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