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Upstairs vs Downstairs: an EPIC Conundrum
A new breed, and new terminology Scott Weingart MD and colleagues have published a discussion paper [1] outlining the role of emergency physicians who have completed additional critical care training –...
View ArticleMaking Things Happen from SMACC 2013
The talks from SMACC 2013 – the best critical conference ever (so far) – are being made available. Here’s my talk on Making Things Happen. Video: An audio only version is available here: References...
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Family presence during resuscitation
Families allowed to be present during attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation had improved psychological outcomes at ninety days. Adult family members of adult patients were studied in this randomized...
View ArticleResus Team Size and Productivity
A paediatric trauma centre study showed that in their system, seven people at the bedside was the optimum number to get tasks done in a paediatric resuscitation. As numbers increased beyond this, there...
View ArticleWhen to Stop Resuscitation
My talk at the SmaccGOLD conference in March 2014 Cliff Reid – When Should Resuscitation Stop from Social Media and Critical Care on Vimeo. Here are the slides:
View ArticleResuscitationist lessons from a self-protection master
“It’s better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it“ My great friend and fellow Brit Lee Morrison is in Sydney again, teaching people how to save lives. Like a resuscitationist....
View ArticleWhat It Takes To Be At The Cutting Edge
This talk was presented at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting in Manchester in September 2015. You can download the audio here, listen online here, or find it in iTunes...
View ArticleConvergent Evolution in the Jungles of Critical Care
By Stuart Duffin Expat Brit, intensive care physician and anaesthetist at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Stuart trained in the UK, and spent some time working Australian emergency...
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Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases
Towards Excellence in Resuscitation Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases #1 A resuscitationist agonises. These words, expressed by Scott Weingart during a podcast we did together, ring true to all...
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Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases – 2
Towards Excellence in Resuscitation Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases #2 Occasionally we step out of the resuscitation room feeling like a case should have gone better, but it can be hard to put...
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