Coda Change

This presentation will summarise the best recent science in cardiac arrest and shock management, and bring you up to date with what every one else is talking about. For more head to: codachange.org/podcasts

The Coda community have identified the Climate Emergency as the most urgent threat to global health. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the climate crisis will become catastrophic if we don't take action immediately. This episode of CodaZero Earth focuses on action stage one – 'identify' and lays the foundations for stage two - 'examine' (as set out in our Five Stage action process). W...

In Australia a 300 bed hospital uses the same amount of Energy as 5000 to 10000 homes. In many ways what we do at work really does matter. The good news is that this is a solvable problem and in some ways the Covid19 pandemic has shown us the steps to facing the Climate Emergency. Just as we learnt that first step for managing the pandemic was to stop the problem growing by limiting spread with ph...

Healthcare accounts for 5-7% of global carbon emissions, which equate to approximately all or the emissions from either Japan or Russia. A large part of those carbon emissions come from the manufacturing of medical devices and pharmaceuticals ('Procurement'). This provides tremendous opportunities for us to drive how the medical technology industry designs and produces these goods in order to redu...

Social inequalities mean that many patients without access to universal healthcare are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis given that their chronic health conditions are exacerbated but they cannot afford to seek treatment. Additionally intergenerational inequality means that younger generations will be more adversely affected by the climate emergency, but at the same time are less l...

The Coda community identified the Climate Emergency as the greatest threat to global health and we have good reason to be alarmed for both our patients and our children. There is good scientific evidence that the climate crisis could be catastrophic. The global healthcare community comprises over 60 million people and together we can make a difference. Global CO2 emissions continue to rise resulti...

Financial institutions may not be known sustainability, but tune in to this session to see what is changing. What are the Green Bonds? Social impact bonds? Join Mark Peacock and Roger Harris in conversation.

Drug abuse is a worldwide problem responsible for a considerable number of deaths, functional dependence, and healthcare costs. Use continues to rise throughout the world and synthetic drugs have been added to the repertoire alongside cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. The acute intoxicating effects on the brain are well known; however, an understanding of the neurological complications is impo...

Brandon Foreman shares top 10 signs of neurological badness. For more head to: codachange.org/podcasts

Ever wondered what life holds after discharge from ICU for the families and partners of patients with a severe brain injury? This interview-style session will focus on the challenges, unexpected good and bad outcomes, positive and negative impacts on relationships, and other issues experienced by patients' loved ones post-ICU. Hearing first-hand from a patient's primary carer will highlight that I...

Applying research in the Neuro ICU; Marketing and Branding; follow up after critical illness. For more head to: codachange.org/podcasts

Cooling the severely brain injured patient in the intensive care unit is far from straight forward. Who should be cooled and when? What do you call a fever, and is this the same as the bedside nurse? When should we start, and when should we not? What would make you stop? This talk will explore the cooling journey of a critically unwell brain injured patient in a neuroscience intensive care unit. I...

Health care providers who phantom or "quick look" ultrasound examine are causing the viral spread of an epidemic, which we can minimize by responsibly utilizing ultrasound inpatient care and by implementing the coaching that artificial intelligence provides. Current trends in point-of-care ultrasound and how the health care provider community can respond are described: 1. Phantom or‚ Quick look‚ s...

The role of ultrasound in paediatric lumbar puncture. For more head to: codachange.org/podcasts

Action Stage: Stage One - Identify Technology in medicine is advancing at pace, providing unparalleled opportunities to process information and to improve both outcomes and safety for healthcare. But with this good comes many challenges and even dangers. How can we better share information and distribute the opportunities equitably? What are the safety mechanisms and who is providing the oversight...

Public interest media is vital. However, there is a crisis in public interest journalism and it is not new, but some believe the pandemic may be an extinction event for this discipline. Global media power and wealth have become concentrated into a handful of tech giants. This concentration of power and its' inherent biases not only poses a threat to public interest journalism but also to global he...

We can have all the evidence in the world in healthcare but at the heart of everything we do and every decision we make there is 'us'. The Pandemic has seen an incredibly accelerated understanding of Covid19, a virus none of us had heard of before January 2020, but it has seen a change in how Evidenced Based Medicine (EBM) is processed and presented. The 'E' continues to represent 'Evidence' but t...

We often associate Indigenous cultures with a deep understanding of nature rather than computing or AI. However, deep learning, connected learning and relationships are integral to both AI and indigenous learning. Perhaps indigenous people are the future of AI. It is essential that we bring groups together to design AI. Indigenous cultures walk in multiple worlds and cross many generations. These...

Over the last 5 years there has actually been a confluence of a few different historical threats. We've had health data being increasingly digitalised and we've had the proliferation of accessible massive scale computing, both of which have un-locked a technique developed in the early 80's called deep learning, which is really good at pattern recognition over large data sets. Key trends in the las...

Rachel Liu, Creagh Boulger & Sharon Kay will provide a brief introduction into the use of gaming in education, more specifically ultrasound education, with live demos. For more head to: codachange.org/podcasts

In light of trials suggesting pocus delays CPR in cardiac arrest, should we be doing more transesophageal echocardiography in the resus room? A pro-con case-based debate. For more head to: codachange.org/podcasts

Abuse in the financial system impacts over 40% of the adult population, and CommBank is taking action. They studied 11 million transactions within the 3 months period, and found that 8,000 people have received abusive messages in the transaction description. Why would CommBank have an interest in customer vulnerability? Catherine Fitzpatrick has joined Roger Harris and Mary Freer for a fascinating...

Creativity is a highly valued and sought after skill; we all need to solve problems, think in novel ways, and generate ideas, but can creativity be learned? This talk provides a practical framework to help you improve your creative thinking, enhance your problem solving and get greater access to your naturally creative brain. You'll discover how creativity follows a process that can be developed a...

It can be particularly challenging to care for dying patients who insist that they are not and request intensive, seemingly futile treatments. Physicians often feel disconnected from such patients. For many, there is the belief that we are different from these patients, more able to accept our own mortality, less likely to desire high intensity, high technology treatments at the EOL. The literatur...

Clinical supervision in our busy workplaces is hard. We balance patient safety, learning opportunities, and the workloads of senior and junior staff. The conversations we have to navigate this balancing act can affect patient outcomes, and how we feel about each other and our work. But these conversations don't always happen, and may not always go well. Sometimes the feeling of "I'm scared', comes...