@MedSTAR_SA CGD External Speaker for today is not in some far flung place, in a completely different time zone… @doctorwibble has flown to South Australia to speak to us f2f! Eagerly awaiting that presentation!
Too bad you’re on leave today @bhanders@MazurStef@appearce2
For anyone interested in videolaryngoscopy outside of the operating theatre...
Now published as an abstract from @ICS_updates SOA 2022, our subgroup analysis of VL performance in three settings: ED, ICU, prehospital.
An interesting pattern emerges.
@dramrogers@doctimcook
The ICU OnePager approach to SHOCK:
⚡ shock is inadequate O2 delivery, NOT a specific BP
4️⃣consider 4 categories using PUMP, TANK, PIPES
💔cardiogenic
🛑obstructive
🫗hypovolemic
🤒distributive
🩺use physical exam & POCUS to differentiate
https://t.co/UQh1I7TgTl
Fantastic D1 of @StephenHearns1 peak performance course @MedSTAR_SA. So many learnings- some which I will be able to use immediately both personally & for the registrars/nurses/paramedics. Privileged to be able to have it run in Adelaide. Participants from all over @SAHealth
@jcu Instructing on the Essential Skills miniblock and a security guard just came to tell us that a student was about to call an ambulance as they saw a homeless man unconscious on the ground! 🤣🤣🤣#simulationeducation
@AlexanderLJones @MedSTAR_SA @SA_Ambulance @AlexanderLJones it’s been a pleasure working with you too! All your hard work and consummate professionalism will be missed while I have to put up with these other two jokers! All the best for the future 💕
#MedTwitter does anyone have experience of, or regularly use an arterial line trainer? Which (if any) are best for art line monitoring/waveform education? Struggling to figure out how to run a session without access to art lines/ICU patients! @ICUnurses@precordialthump
A wee infographic on thinking fast and slow
Training to achieve automaticity is a fundamental tool in improving performance in high pressure, cognitively demanding situations
Automatic processing helps preserve cognitive capacity for complex, nuanced decisions & task execution
Vasopressors in #ICU
1️⃣set MAP/DBP goals
2️⃣individualize
3️⃣may⬇️+ve fluid balance
4️⃣reassess fluid status/CO
5️⃣change mechanism as 2 line
6️⃣high doses?? hydrocortisone
7️⃣vasopressin in RV failure
8️⃣no MAX dose
9️⃣EN can be initiated
🔟can be safe in PVC
🖇 https://t.co/v6Q9nfy5KY
10 years since we ran the first ever Diploma in Retrieval Medicine at The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Great to see all of the examiners again after 3yrs
Standard setting complete. OSPE stations set up. Examiner dinner this eve
Good luck to all candidates tomorrow