IS-EMERCAST Andrew Bezzina, Angus Bezzina
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- Education
Welcome to IS-EMERCAST!. This is the partner and supplement to Med from the SHED – that highly useful resource on the net for Emergency Clinicians in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven. The perennial problem with trying to provide educational resources to a broad geographical area and a disparate group of clinicians always stumps us. Here is part of the answer. This podcast allows easily accessible clinical education and perspectives with a local flavour for those of us working in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven. It is brought to you by the Emergency Medicine Education and Training Program under the Auspices of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and funded by the Commonwealth Government. Whilst all efforts are made to ensure content is appropriate and up to date, all information and perspectives are those of the presenters themselves and do not represent the position of ACEM or Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.
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Episode 19 - The Illusion of Certainty
Medicine has seen the proliferation of guidelines/pathways/clinical decision rules in a dizzying white noise of advisories. They have been developed on the charitable side to minimise variance and provide some certainty of benefit for patients and ease for clinicians. But "do they do what it says on the packet"? This is a perspective and caution on the use of guidelines and pathways and a plea to remember critical thinking and clinical acumen.
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Episode 18 - The Transfer Conversation
Transfer conversations are often a source of a lot of angst, frustration and irritation for clinicians in Emergency Departments on both ends of those conversations. This is a compilation of interviews with clinicians from both sides providing their insights, perspectives and wisdom on what makes them work and how to approach them.
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Episode 17 - Under Pressure
Working in Emergency Departments can place us in high pressure situations. How we handle that pressure in performing our roles is a learned process as much as any other. Emergency Physician Dr Karen Coss provides us with her insights and knowledge on how to approach these situations.
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Episode 16 - Pneumothorax - when less is more
A quick review of the history of pneumothorax and of intercostal catheters before a reflection on NEJM article January 2020 - Conservative versus Interventional Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax.
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Episode 15 - The Difficult Consult
In this episode Dr Simon Tucker provides insights into how he manages what can be very stressful interactions in the daily life of a doctor in the Emergency Department - the difficult consult.
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Episode 14 - Perspective is Key
The view of life as a female Emergency Physician across cultures and countries.