Coda Change

The presentation guru Ross Fisher gives a workshop on how to be creative and engaging when you're presenting, no matter what your topic is.

Ken Milne the author of skeptics guide to emergency medicine SGEM reviews the hottest critical care literature for 2018 2019. Ken reviews articles from the Lomaghi trial on magnesium for rate control in Atrial fibrillation, Expulsive therapy for renal calculi with Tamulosin, Oxygen therapy in critical illness in the Iota trial and finally aromatherapy for nausea and vomiting.

Peter Brindley interviews Khairil Musa about Performing Arts, specifically dance, and how this complements his career in critical care.

Episode 2: Series of three episodes spanning the patient journey from roadside pre-hospital trauma through the emergency and resuscitation rooms to the Intensive Care unit. In this first episode Ashley and Rueben use a panel of experts to examine some of the major pre-hospital resuscitation controversies including Pre-hospital intubation and blood tranfusion.

After many years of feeling frustrated about gender inequity and harassment in healthcare, I decided to do something about it. My advocacy in the age of social media has been a surprising and exhilarating journey, and led me to believe that even the most ordinary person, when activated around a cause, can have impact.

Exploring the many aspects of creativity which may, or may not, assist you in a life of critical care medicine.

Paediatric constipation is a common problem and the biggest problem clinicians make is not taking a thorough bowel history. Forty percent of paediatric patients in Emergency have abnormal bowel habit. Constipation is not what you pass as a bowel habit but what you don't pass - Its what is left behind that causes the constipation.

The delivery of nutrition to the critically ill is incredibly complex. There is little evidence that providing standard nutritional requirements of 25K/cal/Kg improves outcome. Foremost amongst this evidence is the TARGET trial, a large randomised controlled trial of 4000 patients in Intensive care.

Road to Resus is a three day series of a patient experience, with critical decision points at every turn allowing the audience to decide on the course of action after hearing from topic experts.

Humans aren't wired for connecting immediate pleasure (unprotected sex, alcohol, drugs, cigarettes) with some ethereal medium-term risk. As a result, 'public health campaigns' rarely work. Meanwhile, we make decisions far less based on 'fact' than on 'emotion'. When did you ever see a chocolate ad telling you about the ingredients? This may be why we have failed to convince public or politicians alike to take action on climate change. Hugh will discuss such issues from his personal work in the climate change field over 20 years, giving examples of what he has tried- and why most of what he has done has failed.