Neuro Resus

Feeding in the Intensive Care - A trickle or a torrent, is a great summary of several key critical care nutrition trials and how we can apply the evidence from these to the ICU patient. Providing adequate nutrition to patients in the intensive care is an extremely complex therapy that must be carefully titrated on a daily basis. The evidence for how to provide nutrition to critically ill patients is largely lacking and what evidence there is is often contradictory. In this presentation I will look at four feeding trials conducted in the ICU setting and published over the last 3 years. While the results are somewhat conflicting, there are lessons from each that we can apply at the bedside.

SMACC BACK! with Dr Kevin Fong

An interview with Kevin Fong following his talk on safety lessons from space at SMACC Chicago. He is a highly decorated speaker with qualifications in astrophysics, medicine, anaesthetics, engineering and ICU, as well as a regular TV guest star on BBC2 show Horizon, NASA advisor and co-founder, co-director of CASE medicine. He spoke to us about how we can protect ourselves and our patients from risk and how we can better our skills in medicine. We will be sure to catch him at SMACC Dub next year!

Tor Ercleve talks about Resuscitating Art...diving into the world of infographics, symphonies and battle planning. You'll leave this talk refreshed and inspired to reinvent the way you communicate information. This talk was recorded at the smaccGOLD Get Creative Workshop. To see the talk with slides check out www.intensivecarenetwork.com/tor-ercleve-resuscitating-art

SMACC BACK!

In the third interview of the series, Sophie and myself get the opportunity to discuss all things ECMO with leading experts of ED ECMO, Joe Bellezzo and Chris Ho.

Following their highly entertaining cage match at SMACC Chicago in which Joe and Chris are forced to take opposing sides on ED ECMO, we get to hear their real opinions on how this equipment is becoming more and more accessible and valuable in the resus scenario. Between the friendly banter, Joe and Chris have some incredible insights into the future of ECPR.

We hope to see a lot more of these guys at SMACC next year!

SMACC BACK!

After an excellent talk at SMACC US which introduced us to #resus wankers , Dr John Hinds took time to chat with Sophie Connolly and Alice Young (ICU Residents from RNSH) about why SMACC is THE BEST conference, challenges for junior doctors and more!

We thank Dr John Hinds for his positive influence on critical care in Northern Ireland and throughout the extended CC community. He will be missed and our thoughts go out to his family.

SMACC BACK!

Scott Weingart takes time out between his entertaining and enlightening talks given at SMACC Chicago to chat with Sophie Connolly and Alice Young (ICU Residents from RNSH) about all things SMACC, the differences between training in the USA and Australia, advice for junior doctors and the origins of EMCRIT.

Check out this interview as a prelude to the release of the talks given at SMACC Chicago.

Charles Feldman is Professor of Pulmonology and Chief Physician at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. In this talk given at an ICN Victoria meeting last year, he discusses the alphabet soup that represent pneumonia phenotypes and clarifies what it's all about. His unique perspective on the history behind this incredible relevant topic is well worth hearing and hopefully clarifies some misconceptions.

HIV and ICU: the second ICN NZ talk from New Zealand's premier infectious diseases and HIV guru. He is consistently voted by the Auckland Uni Med students as their favourite teacher. Recorded live in Auckland, NZ.

Anthony Brown shares as an editor, the basics and tools of writing you need to use to maximise the c hances of your paper being published. This is a fantastic learning resource and comes neatly packaged within 15 minutes! The talk compliments Michelle Johnston's previous talk on The Artful Arrangment of Words. It was recorded at smaccGOLD's Creative Workshop.

Michelle Johnston, ED physician and author talks about the majesty in writing and how we can improve our skills. She brings us back to the often overlooked basics on the english language and how we can harness them to create a call to action, assert our research more clearly or simply improve everyday writing. This talk was recorded at the smaccGOLD Get Creative/Express Yourself workshop.

This Get Creative: The Art of Communication workshop will be held again with new and exciting material at smaccUS this June. Don't forget to register/add on to your registration. http://www.smacc.net.au/program/workshops/