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A Risky Business

Professor Simon Carley (@EMManchester) has written a must-read series on his multi-author blog StEmlyns titled Emergency Medicine: A Risky Business.

If you are an emergency physician then diagnosis is the core of our practice. Do you understand it? Do you really know what you mean by declaring that a patient does or does not have disease. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to be a wise clinician in the difficult environment of the ED.

Understanding risk and the probabilistic underpinnings of diagnosis is crucial to the practice of emergency medicine and the critical care specialties, so I encourage you all to read this series. The series will no doubt grow so keep an eye on it.

I’ve previously discussed some risky issues in Wrestling with Risk, inspired by a talk by Dave Schriger on ‘Risk – How to assess and measure it! that also stimulated a reaction from Scott Weingart — they’re all worth checking out if this sort of stuff rocks your world. But even better, Simon Carley is going to give us his take on Wrestling with Risk as a keynote speaker at SMACC during the ‘Mind of the Resuscitationist’ plenary.

Can’t wait!

Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne. He is also a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is a co-founder of the Australia and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) and is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme. He is on the Board of Directors for the Intensive Care Foundation and is a First Part Examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives.

After finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia’s Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He has completed fellowship training in both intensive care medicine and emergency medicine, as well as post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professional education.

He is actively involved in in using translational simulation to improve patient care and the design of processes and systems at Alfred Health. He coordinates the Alfred ICU’s education and simulation programmes and runs the unit’s education website, INTENSIVE.  He created the ‘Critically Ill Airway’ course and teaches on numerous courses around the world. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of litfl.com, the RAGE podcast, the Resuscitology course, and the SMACC conference.

His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.

On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.

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