Paramedicine: beyond 2020
Gary Berkowitz provides a brief outline of the capabilities of HARU and some key principles that make it successful. Could this be a model for other ambulance services to follow in the future?
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Straight up
Straight up (bilious babies) with Camille Wu. An overview of causes of surgical vomiting in the neonate. This includes malrotation-volvulus, intestinal atresias, necrotising enterocolitis.
Signs of neurological badness
Brandon Foreman, MD presents on assessing stroke symptoms, using EEG after acute brain injury, and advanced multimodality monitoring at SMACC 2019
The future of prehospital care
The future of prehospital care; treatments and technologies on the horizon with Halden Hutchinson-Bazely at SMACC 2019
Retrieval medicine in Chile
Chile has unique characteristics which pose several challenges for rescue and retrieval medicine. Pablo Hasbun at SMACC 2019
Ultrasound in the field
Changing the face of triage: use of ultrasound in the field with Chris Partyka at SMACC 2019
Prehospital Care in Africa
Mulinda Nyiendra discusses standardising pre-hospital care in Africa and some of the major issues experienced such as access to prehospital care services.
Advances in ultrasound tech
SonoSLAM: Tomorrow Today: Advances in US Tech! Advances in technology are making ultrasound more accessible and effective than ever.
Tomorrow’s Medicine Today
Rick Body discusses the exciting possibilities for tomorrow’s medicine and how we could revolutionise diagnostics with AI.
Uncertainty at the centre of sepsis
Sepsis is a common and deadly condition, but diagnosis in not always knowable in real-time with Hallie Prescott.
Ultrasound for LP
Wendy Chang takes us through the use of ultrasound for lumbar puncture and how this should be used consistently, not just for difficult cases and field cases.
Traffic light urine
Unusual Urine 007 from @KateTietjens. 15 min post methylene blue = traffic light urine!