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Calling all Educators! … Make a difference in ICU Education
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog 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
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog 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

EMA Journal August 2014
Issue 4 (Vol. 26) of EMA Journal for 2014 was published online on 4th August. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes Lifers – the loneliest doctors   (#FOAMed) In the latest dispatch from the FOAM Frontier, Spiegel (@EMNerd_), Johnston (@Eleytherius), Ercleve (@Ercleve) and Nickson (@precordialthump) takes us on board the deep space transporter Odysseus where the deep space medics, jovially known as ‘Lifers’, deal with the perils of the induced mental and physiological stasis of passengers who make the centuries long voyages through deep space. The goal of appropriate sedation and ‘quenc...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 15, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education EMA Journal Emergency Medicine dental emergencies esop tool kit Lifers pediatric fractures Source Type: blogs

Better ways to meet the needs of people with chronic pain
In this study, participants were randomised into two groups – one group received usual care, while the other received automated symptom monitoring via voice-recorded phone calls or the internet, along with one face-to-face meeting with a nurse care management, who discussed medications with a pain physician, followed by a phone call to discuss the care plan, and two other calls, one at one month and one at three months. Additional calls were provided on the basis of symptom records.  Patients in the intervention group benefited, with reduced scores on pain severity and interference as recorded by the Brief Pain Inve...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - July 20, 2014 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Groupwork Pain conditions Research function healthcare Occupational therapy pain management physiotherapy self management Source Type: blogs