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Is it Triage? Or is it Bricolage?
Australian Emergency Departments all use the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) to triage every patient presenting through its doors.
Triage can be defined as:
A process of assessment of a patient on arrival to the ED to determine the priority for medical care based on the clinical urgency of the patient’s presenting condition. Triage enables allocation of limited resources to obtain the maximum clinical utility for all patients presenting to the emergency department.’
The triage nurse applies an ATS category in response to the question: “This patient should wait for medical assessment and treatment no longer than….
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Source: impactEDnurse - February 22, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: reflective practice. Source Type: blogs
SMACC 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 we all wished we’d been given before we first slapped it on a patient.
Something’s got to give is Becky Szekely‘s enlightening overview of organ transplantation from an intensive care perspective in Australia. (NB. The sound is a little shaky at the start but gets better).
I’ve been looking forward to Emergency Medicine Ireland‘s Andy Neill (@andyneill) joi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval Social Media Video alan williams andy neill becky szekely FOAM karen butler natalie may PK smacc-talk simon morton Source Type: blogs
Kaiser Health News/Philadelphia Inquirer on InformaticsMD: "The flaws of electronic records"
At my Dec. 2012 post "How an interview for Kaiser Health News rekindled memories of health IT dysfunction in the 90's that persist in the 10's" I mentioned an interview by a reporter from the Kaiser Health Foundation interviewed me regarding health IT flaws.His article appeared in both the Philadelphia Inquirer and Kaiser Health News today under the title "The flaws of electronic records":Philadelphia Inquirer / Kaiser Health NewsFeb. 18, 2013Jay Hancock, KAISER HEALTH NEWSThe flaws of electronic recordsDrexel University's Scot Silverstein is a leading critic of the rapid switch to computerized medical charts, saying the n...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Richard Cook Philadelphia Inquirer healthcare IT risk ross koppel David Blumenthal Kaiser Family Foundation Kaiser Health News george lundberg ONC matthew holt Jay Hancock IOM Source Type: blogs
SMACC after SMACC after SMACC
The PK SMACC-talks keep on coming… and the quality is undeniable. You can review the first 18 submissions here, here and here. Although SMACC is less than a month away now, we’re loving the PKs so much that we’re leaving the door open for more submissions until the latest possible moment. So, if you think you’re up for the challenge and want to make the world a better place by creating some FOAM (as well as have a chance of winning an iPad Mini), get your entry in here STAT!
One of my colleagues on the 2012 International Emergency Medicine Teaching Course was fantastic Dutch emergency physician Mart...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 14, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care david anderson jimmy fair martine oosterloo melanie thompson minh le cong PK smacc-talk roger harris Video Source Type: blogs
Prof Montage 3 minute cardiology
The pleomorphic education revolution is upon us
In the FOAMed age I am constantly amazed at the resourcefulness of medical educators globally to produce high quality, entertaining, thought-provoking, stimulating and controversial multimedia…for free.
We are throwing off the shackles of peer review and boldly placing both feet in the anarchistic torrent of crowd-sourced education, feedback, commentary and response. As technology develops; broadband access to data improves and educators embrace the new medium – we will see an exponential growth in alternate teaching methods.
Prof Montage is a cardiologist practi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured FOAMed Reviews Web Culture Website cardiac physiology Cardiology clinical epidemiology medical education Prof Montage ProfMontage Source Type: blogs
So, you wanna know about SMACC CLUB?
FOAM is sometimes considered frivolous or lacking in rigour by those in the dark (ages). Here is our chance to show that FOAMers are as interested in the evidence (or lack thereof) underlying the things we do as much as the next emergency medicine or critical care practitioner.
It’s called SMACC CLUB!
Image by @squartadoc – click image for source.
Here are the 8 rules of SMACC CLUB (they may seem strangely familiar to Chuck Palahniuk fans):
The first rule of SMACC CLUB is that you MUST talk about SMACC CLUB!
Yeah, you know the second rule …
If someone says “stop” or goes limp, taps out the c...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 21, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured FOAM Intensive Care Journal Pre-hospital / Retrieval Resuscitation Social Media 24 hour journal club SMACC CLUB Video worldwide Source Type: blogs
Book Review: Eye Essentials For Every Doctor
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Anthony Pane
Peter Simcock
Elsevier Australia
View Sample chapters [PDF]
Eye Essentials For Every Doctor (2013) is a paperback handbook providing a concise overview of common eye conditions. It comprises 255 A5-sized pages and is designed for daily use by non-ophthalmologists such as GPs, junior doctors and medical students.
Each chapter focuses on one specific symptom: visual loss, red eye, and eye trauma for example, and is neatly divided into clear subsections. These include an overview of the problem, clinical features, diagnostic flow charts, referral guidelines, and a summary of crucial points. ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 21, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Book Review Education Emergency Medicine Featured Ophthalmology Reviews Anthony Pane David Baines Eye Essentials Peter Simcock Source Type: blogs
Another Six SMACCers!
It’s raining PK SMACC-talks!
Here’s the next 6 uploaded to the SMACC website (see the first six here). For those of you with PKs in the works — don’t worry the deadline has been extended, but don’t dally too long or you’ll miss out on the chance of an iPad Mini and there could well be an UCEM Fellowship on the line too…
The first three (!) are from man-on-a-mission Tim Leeuwenberg F.UCEM, the medical McGyver from Kangaroo Island who brings a rural and remote perspective to critical care, which as we all know, has to happen everywhere.
In Affordable Airway Toolkit, Tim takes on the basi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 16, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Featured FOAM FOAMed Intensive Care Video Australia capnography cardiac arrest glycocalyx intubation PK smacc-talk remote rural Trauma Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 090
Welcome to the global 90th edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
Top spot this week is given to The Trauma Professional’s Blog, each week Michael provides us with fascinati...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 10, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Some Real-World Lessons for the Health IT Hyper-Enthusiasts
An article was published in Health Leaders Media yesterday by Scott Mace, senior technology editor entitled "Scot Silverstein's Good Health IT and Bad Health IT" at this link.(Actually, the terms "good health IT" and "bad health IT" themselves came as a result of my discussions in Australia with Prof. Jon Patrick of my conviction, presented to the Health Informatics Society of Australia in my Aug. 2012 talk "Critical Thinking on Building Trusted, Transformative Medical Information: Improving Health IT as the First Step", that to be trusted and do no harm, health IT must be “done well".)Scott Mace observes:Inevitabl...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: healthcare IT unintended consequences healthcare IT difficulties Ddulite Kiran Raj Pandey healthcare IT toxicity Wes Fisher MD Source Type: blogs
