Coda Change

Frightened, anxious, unsure, overwhelmed- just a few of the emotions we are experiencing at the moment as the front line of the global public health crisis. Could it be that all the surrounding noise is provoking the fear? Roger, Mary, Liz and Jesse are discussing possible strategies on breaking free from the grips of the ever escalating anxiety during COVID-19 times. Podcast by Roger Harris, Liz Crowe, Mary Freer, Jesse Spurr.

Laura Rock and Jenny Rudolph give strategies for managing interprofessional conflict at the bedside in a critical care setting.

Since 1991-1992, competing for sepsis definitions have--with varying degrees of success--attempted to capture the difference between normal and abnormal host responses in order to help researchers and clinicians improve care. The most crucial basis of "usual care" in sepsis treatment is, simply, who is deemed fit to receive it.

Gerrie gives a fantastic 7 min intro into how to decipher a CT brain.

Clinical trials are expensive and take years to go. Do they generate patient and economic benefit that justifies the cost of trials?

Bec Nogajski takes you on a 20-minute journey about YOU. How your team, how you follow, and what leadership style would work for you.

Evie Marcolini talks about an aspect of neurocritical care that we commonly wrestle with: prognostication. Putting the patient at the centre of all conversations is essential.

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How can something that makes so much sense physiologically not have any positive trial outcomes? Are we disrupting an important potentially beneficial cellular function by our current processes and timing of cooling? Is it targeted hypothermia or is it therapeutic? Will the TTM2 shed any further light and lead to practice change? All these questions and more will be answered in a snap-shot talk of what is (at least!) a decade-long debate, filled with numerous high-quality studies.

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Everyone has the potential to live a creative life - As healthcare professionals, how might we do so? In this talk Grace Leo chats about what creativity is and what it might look like in various areas of our lives. She also interviews Hugh Montgomery; a climate change advocate, story book author and Guinness world record holder for playing the piano underwater.

This presentation will give you an update of the current chest pain protocols; including risk scores (HEART, TIMI, EDACS) with / without high sensitive troponin. But also on the newer pathways with rule out of acute coronary syndrome with a high sensitive troponin below the limit of detection or two troponins with a delta. How do we use these chest pain protocols in tomorrow’s clinical practice? How do you choose a protocol that fits in your institution? Which chest pain patient can we discharge safely from the emergency department and for whom should we organize outpatient follow up? And how do you share your decision with the patient in front of you.