Category SMACC19
SMACC 2019 yellow education communication 340

Psychology of trauma care

Trauma care should be easy… shouldn’t it? So why doesn’t it feel easy? The clinical component is the easy bit, the challenge is the non-technical factors.

SMACC 2019 green community advocacy 340

Panel discussion QANDA

Professor Owler discusses his experience in his various roles to achieve successful outcomes both in terms of health policy as well as legislative changes. He will discuss the role of doctors in this process and how to interact with government, media and stakeholders to achieve better outcomes for patients and the community.

SMACC 2019 green community advocacy 340

Canadian Medical Emergency Response Team

Lieutenant Colonel Leilani Doyle recounts how this was accomplished from the early concept, through development and finally to the deployment of the CMERT (Canadian Medical Emergency Response Team)

SMACC 2019 red clinical critical care 340

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.

SMACC 2019 red clinical critical care 340

Preparing for the unknown

Training and psychological preparedness is essential for prehospital and disaster clinicians, in order to effectively care for victims in austere environments.

SMACC 2019 orange career wellbeing 340

Stand up for Prehospital medicine

In the ER, we are taught to turn towards the pain of others. We are not given as deliberate advice on how to care for ourselves despite the adversity we see, and the inevitability of being hurt by it.

SMACC 2019 red clinical critical care 340

Cardiac transplant

When time is muscle every second counts. Cardiac failure may not be so terminal after all, with Emily Granger

SMACC 2019 red clinical critical care 340

Ultrasound in Trauma

The scope of ultrasound in trauma; the evolution of point-of-care Ultrasound in Trauma, and the FAST examination with Resa Lewiss