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Umesh Prabhu, The Changemaker
…. mistakes are made by us all, but what causes one man to decide to change the culture of medicine?
LITFL Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series of posts on medical error that tie in with article by Tessa Davis in the Medical Journal of Australia Insight. Use these links to read the first two parts: The doctor who exposed his own error and The victim of medical mistakes.
When Umesh Prabhu moved from India to work as a paediatrician in the UK he had no reason to be a patient safety advocate; until his own mistake resulted in a terrible outcome for his patient. Here, I talk to him about how he has ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 13, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured change medical error medical journal of australia mistakes MJA insight umesh prabhu Source Type: blogs
EMCrit Talks SMACC GOLD
The build up to SMACC GOLD has well and truly begun — remember March 19th to 21st 2014 on the Gold Coast in Australia, with limited places for the amazing workshops on March 18th 2014 (think airway workshop with Weingart, Levitan and Le Cong or an education workshop with Rogers, Brazil, Mallemat and Carley… plus lots, lots more!)
Our fearless leader on the SMACC organising committee, Roger Harris (@RogerRDHarris), was over in New York recently and got to do an EMCrit podcast on the upcoming conference. You’ll also hear Scott Weingart’s (@emcrit) own glowing appraisal of the conference.
Check out EMCri...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 8, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Resuscitation SMACC Conference emcrit FOAM roger harris scott weingart SMACC GOLD Source Type: blogs
Jam it!
This is a great concept — Just A Minute Instant Tutorials – short one minute refresher videos for use on your smartphone, tablet or laptop, either streamed or downloadable.
It is also a great competition.
It comes from the collective brain of Casey Parker, Minh Le Cong and Tim Leeuwenberg — and I suspect at least subconsciously inspired by Matt Dawson and Mike Mallin’s One Minute Ultrasound app — all five will feature at SMACC GOLD too of course.
Here’s the low down as of 5th September 2013, from the JAMIT — Rural Medicine Australia page, where you can submit your entries:
Entry to the comp...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 2, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Competition Emergency Medicine Featured FOAM Pre-hospital / Retrieval Resuscitation Video JAMM JAMM IT remote rural Source Type: blogs
Jamm it!
This is a great concept — Just A Minute Medicine Instant Tutorials – short one minute refresher videos for use on your smartphone, tablet or laptop, either streamed or downloadable.
It is also a great competition.
It comes from the collective brain of Casey Parker, Minh Le Cong and Tim Leeuwenberg — and I suspect at least subconsciously inspired by Matt Dawson and Mike Mallin’s One Minute Ultrasound app — all five will feature at SMACC GOLD too of course.
Here’s the low down, ripped from the PHARM blog:
Overview:
JAMM (Just a Minute Medicine) is a FOAMEd ( Free Open Access Medical Education) conc...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 2, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Competition Emergency Medicine Featured FOAM Pre-hospital / Retrieval Resuscitation Video JAMM JAMM IT remote rural Source Type: blogs
The doctor who exposed his own error
Rather than hiding in shame from his mistakes, Bryan Bledsoe went public to tell the world about his error. Here, he tells me about the reasons behind that decision, and the consequences it has had for his career.
Not only did he survive the terrifying experience of ‘going public’, he actually believes that the publicity benefitted him and others.
Now he is a successful Emergency Physician, and author, in the USA, but back when he was a junior doctor he sent a patient home with tragic consequences. Dr Bledsoe described the details of his clinical encounter to me – the lady came in with a soft cervical collar on a...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 27, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Bryan Bledsoe medical error MJA Source Type: blogs
All The Good Stuff
I recently saw the awesome workshops being lined up for the 30th ACEM Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide this November. I asked Thiru what really good stuff was going down this year — this it what’s being served up:
Critical care stuff — Updates in Resus, Trauma, Cardiology…
Topical stuff — Time based targets, Sepsis guidelines, Thrombolysis for stroke, International EM…
Education stuff — “Management for Clinicians” workshop by RACMA, CRP update, Communication workshop, SIMWARS, US “finishing school”, “How to publish workshop” “Tox workshop” “Radiology workshop”…
Ext...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Featured South Australia ACEM adelaide all the good stuff ASM Source Type: blogs
Imagining the future
The ACEM conference in Hobart 2012 was an excellent event which juxtaposed art and science with inspiration and education in the setting of stimulation and entertainment.
Thankfully many of the talks and presentations are now being released for general consumption, and we will highlight some of the key speakers and talks on LITFL.
One session I was fortunate to be involved with was on ‘Imagining the future of e-learning and education’ with Prof Kendall Ho and Mr Stephen Atherton. Although this is a long 90 minute session and the slides appear intermittently – there are some great thoughts and learning p...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 21, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Blog Architecture Education Emergency Medicine Featured Networking Social Media Web 2.0 Web Culture ACEM Conference eLearning hobart Imagining the future Kendall Ho Stephen Atherton Video Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 032
TechTool review of Figure1 by Movable Science on iOS
Website: – iTunes - Website
Figure1 is really what we have all been talking about in the FOAM world for some time. It’s a way of storing patient photos on your phone, taking consent and sharing them with others for educational purposes.
It’s only out in the US at the moment, but I’ve had a sneak preview to see if it’s up to expectations
Design and User Interface
The design is ok, but could use some work to improve it. The overall style and colour scheme looks great, but the photo feed doesn’t. All you see is giant photos in a long list ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews Web Culture android figure 1 iphone Tech Tool TechTool Source Type: blogs
Developing EM
aka Postcards from the Edge 011
Lee Fineberg and Mark Newcombe are Emergency Physicians and Helicopter-Retrieval specialists who are better know in international EM circles for putting together a very successful conference on developing Emergency Medicine globally in Sydney last year. Their conference is called DevelopingEM and on Twitter they are @developingem. This ‘postcard from the edge’ is an interview with them about the DevelopingEM project.
1. Firstly what was the vision behind the Developing EM conference and what inspired you to host the inaugural sessions last year?
Mark:
Thanks Bish for the intervie...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Bishan Rajapakse Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Featured Health Cuba Developing EM IEM international emergency medicine Lee Fineberg Mark Newcombe Source Type: blogs
R&R in the FASTLANE 031
Our currently highly irregular series of eminence-based evidence is finally back again – with the 31st edition:
A free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 11 recommended reads. Find out more about the R&R in the FASTLANE project here and check out the team of contributors from all around the world.
This edition’s R&R Hall of Famer
Young NS, Ioannidis JP, Al-Ubaydli O. Why current publicat...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE critical care literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
Emergency Medicine Kwa-Zulu Natal Style
aka Postcards from the Edge 010
Each time we feature a ‘postcard from the edge’ from the somewhat infamous New Zealand-trained emergency physician Dr Sandy Inglis he is somewhere new — we last heard from him as a patient in Italy, now he is back in ancestral lands in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Only 2 months have past in this, the wild west of Emergency Medicine, and yet the drama, the excitement, the frustration and the chaos make it feel like we have been here for years. I am employed here as the Head of Department for Emergency Medicine, plucked from the comfort of Australasian Emergency Medicine (EM) to come to this ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 24, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured kwa-zulu natal postcard from the edge sandy inglis South Africa Source Type: blogs
SMACC PK Round-Up 4
As promised last week, here’s a round up of the next battery of PK SMACC-talks gunning for the prize of an iPad Mini at the increasingly imminent SMACC conference.
Alan Williams gives the 400 second run down on Non-Invasive Ventilation we all wished we’d been given before we first slapped it on a patient.
Something’s got to give is Becky Szekely‘s enlightening overview of organ transplantation from an intensive care perspective in Australia. (NB. The sound is a little shaky at the start but gets better).
I’ve been looking forward to Emergency Medicine Ireland‘s Andy Neill (@andyneill) joi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval Social Media Video alan williams andy neill becky szekely FOAM karen butler natalie may PK smacc-talk simon morton Source Type: blogs
