By The Communiques
The podcast currently has 49 episodes available.
Welcome to Episode Fourteen of our podcast series. This features material from our December 2023 print edition of the Clinical Communiqué. This podcast presents key learnings from the coroner’s inquest into the 2016 thunderstorm asthma event in Melbourne in which ten patients tragically lost their lives. We reflect on the terrifying rapidity with which their conditions changed from mildly short of breath to being in extremis, highlighting that it can be a matter of minutes between life and death in thunderstorm asthma.
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Welcome to Episode Thirteen of our podcast series. This features material from our September 2023 print edition of the Clinical Communiqué. This podcast presents the lessons to be learned by examining the failure to hear the concerns of those that should be at the centre of every health care interaction. We present two cases where the patient's families told the coroners that they had not been listened to by the nurses and doctors caring for their loved ones.
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Welcome to Episode Eighteen of our podcast series. This features material from our November 2023 print edition of the Residential Aged Care Communiqué. This podcast presents the lessons to be learned by examining pre-existing circumstances that contributed to two patients’ falls that caused their deaths. A common underlying factor was timeliness of care.
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Welcome to Episode Seventeen of our podcast series. This features material from our August 2023 print edition of the Residential Aged Care Communiqué. This podcast presents the lessons to be learned from the premature deaths of residents due to suboptimal management of diabetes mellitus.
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This podcast episode presents the results of the investigation into the premature death of a resident who had a fall from a runaway wheelchair. The three commentaries draw on clinical and research experts to address how to balance improving mobility with a wheelchair while mitigating potential harm. We also welcome a new narrator Ashleigh Redmond who is a practising registered nurse and actor.
This is Episode Sixteen of our podcast series and features material from our May 2023 print edition of the Residential Aged Care Communiqué.
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In this episode we feature two cases of worsening upper airway swelling leading to fatal airway obstruction following routine extubation of patients after surgery. Despite many advances in airway management, extubation-related incidents have not reduced. The cases highlight the actions leading to the loss of airway protection, a failure to recognise the severity of the situation, and an inability to salvage the situation.
We also welcome a new narrator Ashleigh Redmond who is a practising registered nurse and actor. This is Episode Twelve of our podcast series and features material from our June 2023 print edition of the Clinical Communiqué.
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Escaping, absconding, unexplained absences lead to death. The investigation into a resident’s unexplained absence determined the cause of death as hypothermia secondary to becoming lost in surrounding bushlands. The inquest findings are presented along with expert commentary around how to prevent unexplained absences.
This is Episode Fifteen of our podcast series and features material from our February 2023 print edition of the Residential Aged Care Communiqué. Episode Contents
In partnership with First Nations Peoples from clinical, education, design, and consumer advocacy backgrounds, this critical edition of the Clinical Communique presents two coroners' cases where a lack of cultural safety in the health care system led to preventable and tragic consequences. Special thanks to Mr Olli Wynyard Gonfond who narrated this episode, and Dr Jordana Stanford for her guest apperance.
This is Episode Eleven of our podcast series and features material from our March 2023 print edition of the Clinical Communiqué.
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Welcome to Episode #11 of the Future Leaders Communiqué podcast. In this episode, we present a thought-provoking summary of the events leading to the tragic death of JL, a 69-year-old woman recovering from an elective neurosurgical operation. We reflect on the challenges faced by junior doctors engaging in locum work and the chain of communication in medical imaging reports.
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The investigations into the deaths of two residents from choking on food are described. Two experts address the challenges of managing the impact of dementia on residents’ ability to eat, as well as, staff managing ethical decision about cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
This is Episode Fourteen of our podcast series and features material from our November 2022 print edition of the Residential Aged Care Communiqué.
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