Is it really all about the glycocalyx?
Jeremy Cohen talks glycocalyx... and not only survives, but gives the best explanation of what the glycocalyx means for critical care you're likely to find.
Month September 2017
SMACC Pecha Kucha 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…
It’s natural, it must be safe
Mark Little tackles the topic of herbal and alternative medicines at SMACC with his talk, 'It's natural, therefore it must be safe'.
Where we work
Do you work in an emergency department, or a "shop"?
SonoWars at SMACC
Finally the full video footage of the inaugural SMACC SonoWars event has been released — watch, learn and be entertained!
Intralipid – myth or miracle?
Intralipid is one of the most exciting recent developments in clinical toxicology (right up there with high-dose insulin euglycemic therapy, aka HIET). We are rightly skeptical of any new therapy, especially one that promises so much. Nevertheless, many of the…
When the elephant awakens…
A chronic shortfall in doctors has led to a great increase in new medical graduates in Australia. What does this mean for emergency medicine and the training of junior doctors?
The Interesting New Zealander
The following is a reproduction of a letter to the Editor of the British Medical Journal published in 1980 (in the Stubbies era):
Why is everyone really so annoyed about the AHPRA social media guidance?
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has managed to enrage health professionals across the country over the last month with their new rules around advertising through social media. And, as when every other major organisation releases a social media policy, we have…
The Tunneler
I can’t escape its screeching cries, Its siren serpents scorching eyes. It draws me deep into the neath, Below the wretches of the heath. Abducted from the cool fresh air, By a Sissyphean stair Whose relentless rapen churning crime Vaults…
FACEMs at Night: An American Perspective
This is the first of two perspectives on whether FACEMs should work night night shifts, for the second, see Michelle Johnston’s ‘FACEMs at Night: A Mattress Stuffed with Flaw‘. My father, an active general surgeon who has been in practice…
FACEMs at Night: A Mattress Stuffed with Flaw
This is the second of two perspectives on whether FACEMs should work night night shifts, for the first, see Anand Swaminathan’s ‘FACEMs at Night: An American Perspective‘. Let us take ourselves one fact. One, simple, undeniable fact. One cannot, after all,…