SMACC INNOVATION CONNECTIVITY EDUCATION

JOHN MYBURGH

CATECHOLAMINES, RESUSCITATION AND RESURRECTION:

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David Gattas is an Intensivist and clinical researcher from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

Known for his dry wit and calm composure under fire David is a rising power player for the ANZICS CTG and was heavily involved with the recent CHEST study.

This talk was given at a Sydney Intensive Care Network meeting this February.

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Roger Harris, the Bedside Critical Care big dog gives his last talk of the 2012 conference.

From the maker of Sex and Nutrition comes Oxidative Stress.

Roger specifically discusses:

• What is Oxidative stress
• Why is Oxidative Stress important
• How does Selenium fit into Oxidative stress
• Selenium (Se) in critical illness
• What’s the current evidence for Se in ICU

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SMACC INNOVATION CONNECTIVITY EDUCATION

SMACC 13 OPENING CEREMONY Director's Cut

Director's cut: a low-key talk through the Opening Ceremony video with Oli Flower and Roger Harris.

SMACC INNOVATION CONNECTIVITY EDUCATION

SMACC 13 OPENING CEREMONY

The stunt that opened smacc 2013.

WHO: Associate Professor Yahya Shehabi

WHAT: Delirium - an elephant in the room?

DATE: Thursday 6.6.13

TIME: 18.30 onwards

WHERE: Edmund Blacket Room, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney

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A pecha kucha giving a succinct update and evidence review on nutrition in hepatic encephalopathy.

By Melissa Chin, a medical student at Sydney Universiity

Made for SMACC 2013.

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How safe is your hospital for a patient with a tracheostomy? 

Sean Kelly from the Intensive Care Coordination Monitoring Unit (ICCMU) talks with Tony Burrell from the Clinical Excellence Commission and Ian Seppelt about improving the safety of  patients with tracheostomies in and out of the ICU…….managing tracheostomy airway emergencies,  before and when the cavalry arrives……and the recently released  ICCMU  guideline, "Adult Patients in Acute Care Facilities with a Tracheostomy".

The guideline and other resources to help implement the guideline in your hospital can be accessed at ICCMU here

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If someone does something of note, you can be almost certain there'll be a host of parodies following in its wake. Some are funny, some are in poor taste, some are better than the original and occasionally some have a message. 

SMACC2: The inside scoop! 

It’s time that we come clean with some of the preliminary planning for smacc2.

This post is a brief synopsis of what’s been happening in the last 7 weeks...

Click Read more to hear the latest on smacc2...

 Alex ROSENBERG 

Alex Rosenberg is an Intensivist who was working in a transplant centre last year.

He gave this talk on immunosupression at last year's Bedside Critical Care Conference and managed to make a fairly dry subject seem understandable and relevant. 

Click here for more info on this year's Bedside Critical Care Conference, which promises to be fantastic.

Click Read more for Alex's podcast and slides...

The ANZICS Safety and Quality Committee needs your help!

They've reviewed the prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in intensive care units, looking at epidemiology and pathophysiology, with the intent to make recommendations on prevention. They have not reviewed diagnosis or treatment. However, before they release it as an official document, they are looking for some feedback from Australian and New Zealand intensive care practicioners, to see if there is likely to be a significant difference between the proposed statement recommendations and current practice and whether there might be areas that could present opportunities for further research.

So they've engaged in a bit of social media to get a wide view of opinions on the proposed consensus statement. You can read this "consultation" version of the statement document here: ANZICS VAP Statement: Consultation Version

Once you've digested it, you can answer a survey on the statement here: ANZICS VAP Statement - Consultation Version survey (Survey Monkey).

The ANZICS Safety and Quality Committee last surveyed ICU VAP prevention practice in 2009 (ANZICS VAP Survey Report 2009)

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If you are knocking about in Melbourne with time on your hands on the 9th of May, why not wander over to the RACV City Club on Bourke Street and find out what's new in the translation of ICU research into clinical practice with two great speakers. Find out more by following the Read More link

I recently had cause to revise a bit about HELLP syndrome, so I've put together a pop quiz for your brain-scratching pleasure

EchoCalc (FREE)

**Highly recommended Echo App**

FOAMed par excellence. Hard to imaging why anyone would buy some of the expensive echo apps out there with this one on the market. Download NOW on Android or iOS 

EchoCalc is the official App of the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) made freely available to download. It contains all of the BSE normal reference values for transthoracic echocardiography and other widely used reference values, including those for prosthetic aortic and mitral valves. The information is displayed in an easy-to-use format, and is supported by clear high quality diagrams.

To find out more click "Read more..."

 Update 

You may have already heard Anthony Holley's podcast on the recent blood transfusion guidelines. If not click below to hear the podcast and see his slides. 

The new news however is that The National Blood Authority have released the latest Module in the Patient Blood Management Guidelines.

It can be downloaded electronically or hard copies can be ordered free of charge at www.nba.gov.au/guidelines/module4.

This module is also available on the Patient Blood Management Guidelines iPad app, (see here).

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 Pierre JANIN 

Pierre Janin is an intensivist with many interests. For example you may have seen his fantastic echo guide or his talk on transcranial doppler. One of his other passions is microbiology, and at BCC last year he gave this talk on Fungal infections. He often proudly shows pictures of his fungal balls on ward rounds.

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ICN are very pleased to announce a new feature on our website: Pierre Janin's Echo Guide.

Designed by someone who is passionate about bedside echo in critically ill patients, for those of you learning echocardiography skills, this is a fantastic resource.

You can choose a chamber of the heart, a valve, or another measurement, then see the best way to assess this area and what values you may expect.

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The Intensive Care Foundation has a mission to improve the care, treatment, and quality of life of critically ill persons in Australia and New Zealand through:

• The provision of research grants for projects in areas of intensive care and critical illness or issues related to those subjects
• Promoting the awareness and education of the general community about intensive care and critical illness or issues related to those subjects.

The Foundation recognises that medical research in the area of intensive care is vital, as knowledge can mean the difference between life and death.

 $50000 

The Grants are available to Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health and Scientists practising in Intensive Care in Australasia.

If you have a project in mind, if you need financial support and if you complete the application form maybe you could recieve up to $50000 AUD for your project.

Applications have to be in by Friday the 3rd of May

Find out more below...

 Anthony HOLLEY 

 Podcast: COAGULATION MANAGEMENT 

Anthony Holley, a world famous transfusion and coagulation guru, draws on his military, ED and ICU experience and talks about the most recent blood transfusion guidelines. They are a great resource and can be downloaded here. This talk is different to the last one he gave at Bedside Critical Care 2012!

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International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous ICU conference (other than SMACC) has been on this week.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne was there feeding us live reports as a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear Li's third report.

International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous ICU conference (other than SMACC) has been on this week.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne was there feeding us live reports as a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear about day 2.

International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous (other than SMACC) ICU conference in the world is underway.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne is there at the moment and sending over a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear about day 1.

International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous (other than SMACC) ICU conference in the world is underway.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne is there at the moment and sending over a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear about day 1.

SMACC: Medical Student Review

One of the great aspects of the SMACC conference was that it had broad appeal to a wide spectrum of health professionals involved with critical care.

Three medical students (Arghya Gupta, Amy Cui and Mel Chin) have written their own review of the conference.

We promise that we are not related to them and, in the spirit of FOAMed, have paid them nothing!

We thank them for their honest opinions, and for their time, in writing this review.

"Hey there", say the enthusiastic emergency department registrar, "I'm glad I caught you. I've just seen this 51 year old lady who came in to the department with pleuritic left sided chest pain and feeling a bit short of breath. She flew in from Buenos Aires 3 days ago. She, s a bit tachycardic (105bpm), tachypnoeic (24bpm) and her SpO2 is 93% on room air before putting her on a Venturi mask at an FiO2 of 0.4. 

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The build up was unprecedented. The conference was novel. And the conversation continues.

Just in case you've had your head under a rock, I'm talking about SMACC 2013.

SMACC stands for Social Media and Critical Care and it is the title of a new kind of critical care conference that was held at the start of this week (March 11th - 12th), at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. It was an experiment that was born out of a collaborative effort between a group of emergency, intensive care and prehospital medicine practitioners as a way to delivier a novel conference experience.

LIVE. FREE.

If you can't make it to SMACC, but want to still be part of the action, don't worry.

• Follow SMACC on Twitter with the #SMACC2013
• Look at the pictures as they go up live on the SMACC Facebook page
• Watch Minh Le Cong's live Google Hangouts from the conference every evening
• And even more excitingly, you can watch the first session LIVE and FREE.
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