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Tropical Travel Trouble 011 Tonsillitis and the Bull
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Peer Reviewers: Dr Jennifer Ho, ID physician QLD, Australia and Dr Mark Little, ED physician QLD, Australia.
You are working in far North Queensland and encounter a 20 year old Indigenous man with tonsillitis on your ED short stay ward round. He has been receiving IV penicillin and metronidazole overnight but is deteriorating and now cannot open his mouth beyond 1.5cm, and has a swollen neck (some might say ‘Bull neck’). In add...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 25, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine antitoxin bull neck c. diphtheriae c.ulcerans DAT pseudomembrane vaccine Source Type: blogs
Butterfly Network Expands Applications for Smartphone-Connected Ultrasound: Interview
Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized ultrasound...
Source: Medgadget - November 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Exclusive News Ob/Gyn Pediatrics Radiology Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Calling all Educators! … Make a difference in ICU Education
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It is an exciting time to be an Educator involved in critical care in Australia and New Zealand!
We now have an active interprofessional grassroots network working in collaboration with organisations such as CICM, ACCCN, ANZICS, ICN, ANZAHPE, and SMACC (among others!) to advance clinical education in critical care.
This Network seeks to:
promote and develop the Clinician Educator role
implement best practice education in critical care
foster education scholarship and resea...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Education Intensive Care adelaide ANZCEN Australia clinician educators critical care network new zealand unconference Source Type: blogs
Calling all Educators! … Make a difference in ICU Education
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It is an exciting time to be an Educator involved in critical care in Australia and New Zealand!
We now have an active interprofessional grassroots network working in collaboration with organisations such as CICM, ACCCN, ANZICS, ICN, ANZAHPE, and SMACC (among others!) to advance clinical education in critical care.
This Network seeks to:
promote and develop the Clinician Educator role
implement best practice education in critical care
foster education scholarship and resea...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Education Intensive Care adelaide ANZCEN Australia clinician educators critical care network new zealand unconference Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 01, 2022 Edition-----This week it is all about weather and climate change with floods, heatwaves and droughts in Parkistan, Europe and China. In the US drought is causing all sorts of food supply issues and price rises.In the EU was a seeing all sorts of energy supply problems.In Australia we have a feast of investigations into ScoMo, RoboDebt and so on. Lots to browse!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/us-alliance-fear-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-20220818-p5bat8US alliance fear that dare not speak its nameUneasiness about divided, inward-looking America fulfilling its security gua...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
We Need To Make Sure We Are Optimising Our Approach And Use Of Telehealth Now The Pandemic May Be Settling!
This appeared last week: 18 July 2022Is telehealth the great panacea for rural health?Simon Judkins, Belinda Hibble& Stephen GourleyIssue 27 / 18 July 2022Instead of a telehealth explosion, where “we will get back in touch with you”, we need to refocus on a rural workforce explosion, where we can have clinicians and patients actually within hand’s reach of each otherOUT of a crisis comes opportunity, and with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic marching on, opportunities to transform many aspects of our health care systems have flourished.One of the areas that has gained much interest is the potentia...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 93 with Naomi Diel
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The College of Intensive Care Annual Scientific Meeting is upon us. How do you make something like that happen? Lets ask Naomi Diel, part of last years organising committee.
The CICM ASM is happening next month. It is in Hobart. That’s in Tasmania.
Last year it was in Sydney. There are probably more first year ICU trainees in one hospital in Sydney than there are Intensivists of any description in the state of Tasmania. This year will be different.
When I was a kid, m...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 18, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Naomi Diel Source Type: blogs
National Digital Health Strategies Around the World
As healthcare systems struggle with unsustainability, a shortage of medical professionals, while technological development is soaring, digital health seems to be a viable path toward making healthcare feasible. We looked around the world, which countries have the same idea in mind trying to put it into practice. The following national digital health strategies are the examples we found.
Why does every country need a digital health strategy?
Three reasons necessitate the urgent introduction of a digital health strategy in every country.
(1) First and foremost, healthcare systems are unsustainable. According to OECD projecti...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 16, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy australia Denmark digital health strategy healthcare system healthcare systems Innovation Israel new zealand rwanda Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 022 with Felicity Hawker
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogFelicity Hawker – A true female pioneer of Intensive CareThis week’s Mastering Intensive Care podcast features Dr Felicity Hawker who is one of the true female pioneers of Intensive Care in Australia and New Zealand.I had the privilege of working with Felicity for over a decade from when I began as a brand new intensive care consultant over 20 years ago and I came to admire her greatly. Mainly because I witnessed first-hand someone who was a master clinician – astu...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 13, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies Felicity Hawker Female Pioneer Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 025 with Sarah Yong
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Sarah Yong – Making an excellent start to an intensive care career
What are the biggest challenges when beginning as a fully-fledged intensive care clinician?
How do you best use your senior colleagues when your experience bank is still small?
What can you do to help achieve gender equity in intensive care medicine?
These are some of the questions you’ll ponder as you listen to the latest Mastering Intensive Care podcast guest Dr Sarah Yong from Melbourne.
Having s...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 2, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Intensive Care Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies sarah yong Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 071 with Charlie Corke and all things CICM
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CICM x JELLYBEAN The College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand has an Annual Scientific Meeting every year. In 2017 the title was “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The organising committee have embraced #FOAMed. The best lectures will be made available for FREE on the Intensive Care Network and on the CICM-ASM site. They invited Doug Lynch to come along and have a Jellybean style chat with the international speakers and ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean ASM Charlie Corke CICM Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 84 with Steve Philpot
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogTalking about talking about dying with Dr Steve Philpot, Master of Communication.In the week that one of the states in Australia has pretty much managed to pass assisted dying legislation I had to reach for this Jellybean recorded at the College of Intensive Care Medicine ASM in Sydney this year. The state of Victoria, where I personally reside, has almost passed the assisted dying bill. It has been a fractious and bitter process at times. But it is all but done. I have been...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 30, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean communication Death dying Steve Philpot Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 026 with Peter Kruger
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Peter Kruger – Does anecdotal experience help you provide better intensive care?
How do you balance the use of your clinical experience with the literature-based evidence?
Are you a good enough listener?
Is the clinical handover in your ICU the best it could be?
I’ve been reflecting on these questions since I talked to A/Prof Peter Kruger for this week’s Mastering Intensive Care podcast.
Peter is Deputy Director of Intensive Care at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 4, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Intensive Care Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies Peter Kruger Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 032 with Kate Harding
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Kate Harding – Losing Richard: What can we learn from her intensivist husband’s shocking death?
What is it like to witness an intensivist struggle?
And what can we learn from the shocking death of an intensivist?
This special Mastering Intensive Care episode is on a difficult and important topic. Rather than focusing on bringing our best selves to work, the focus of this episode is the ultimate tragedy of our profession, doctor suicide.
I warn you that this is a sa...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies doctor intensivist Kate Harding Mental Health Richard Harding suicide Source Type: blogs
