#resusTO

Claw, fight, learn, grow, improve — The inches, the marginal gains we need to become expert resuscitationists, are all around us.  To find them requires insight, self-reflection, and effort.  In this powerful plenary session, Michael Lauria draws from his military and paramedic background on how to push your performance to the next level.

James Gould, winner of the prestigious #resusTO resident speaker competition, talks us through a sensible and management-focused approach to one of the most challenging clinical scenarios out there.  Echo, ECMO, pressors and more.

Tour bus vs bridge beam, structure partially collapsed, multiple victims en route, extrication in progress.  Estimated 50 or more casualties.  Can you manage the first 15 minutes of a catastrophic scenario?  Yes you can.  And Sara Gray his here to tell you how.

Who are you?  More importantly, who are WE?  Kicking off #resusTO, Peter Brindley talks about we come together, or fail to come together, to work as inter professional teams, and what we can do to make things better, safer, and hell — more fun.

So you’ve got a checklist.  You brief your teams.  Check and check.  Now, how do you make sure what you’re doing is actually helping your team prepare for what comes next?  How can you effectively situate briefings within a complex interprofessional culture?  Vic Brazil is, as always, not to be missed.

It takes more than just a fancy headset.  An #MedEd visionary, Jesse Spurr leads us through an evidence-based discussion and demonstration of how virtual and augmented reality will shape the future of simulation-based medical education and patient care.

Effective resuscitation begins BEFORE the primary survey, with a deliberate appraisal of self, team and environmental resources and limitations.  The Zero Point Survey describes an organized approach to setting the stage, even in the most complex clinical situations.  Hicks and Petro help you set up for success.

“Hey, someone get me the thing with the thing on it.” Words matter.  What we say, and how we say it, can quite literally make the difference between life and death in a resuscitation.  How do we shape our thoughts and our words to communicate effectively in an inter-professional team? Kari White and Vic Brazil show us the way.

Intubati George Kovacs drops heaps of awake airway knowledge in this tour de force how-to session on how to approach even the most challenging of airway scenarios with competence and confidence (Hint: it’s not via RSI).

Unidentified male, altered LOA, temperature 40C, hypotensive, ECG shows QRS > 0.12s.  What next?  Emergentologist and toxicologist Emily Austin talks through a practical approach to the undifferentiated overdose with a weird looking ECG.