Coda Change

Paul Young's talk suggests how honey bees, senegalese grasshoppers, and desert iguanas might prompt a large RCT investigating paracetamol use in the context of fever.   

Goudie expounds upon the virtues of being approximately right rather than precisely wrong when performing cardiac ultrasound. 

Marek Nalos gives us the finer details of using ultrasound as a diagnostic tool for respiratory illness.

Bowra examines the possibility of 'turning off the machine' and behaving like a doctor versus a detailed examination of the IVC. 

Brian Burns on managing trauma patients in extremis and extreme conditions.

Michael Parr's 'how-to' for maximising hospital care: systematic, protocol driven, and technology intense.

Anthony Holley brings a military perspective to advances made in trauma management on and off the battlefield.

Cath Hurn chews through some data and gives us some of the finer points of fluid resuscitation.

Michelle Johnston gets past the numbers and puts gestalt back into managing a shocked patient.

The erudite John Myburgh condenses fluid resuscitation data down to a palatable brew. 

Anthony Delaney examines the evidence for usefulness of goal directed therapy in the septic patient.

The lowdown on getting your priorities straight and your doses optimised when tubing a shocked patient.

Matt O'Meara reads the fine print on fluid management in paeds and straight talks on best practice.

Step into the shoes of Mary McCaskill as she walks us through some not to be missed neonatal presentations. 

Andrew Numa on the art of defining futility in conditions of uncertainty and rationing healthcare to maximise benefits. Another paeds talk from SMACC 2013.

Simon Carley shines a light on the value of a resuscitationist in the realm of paediatric medicine, the first in our line up of paeds talks.

Cliff Reid makes things happen conveying the core concepts of an optimal resus as performative act. Our final talk from the resuscitation plenary.

John Myburgh brings his experience and analysis to bear upon the use of catecholamines in the crashing patient. The second talk in the Resuscitation plenary.

Scott Weingart's call to resuscitationists. The first of three Resuscitation plenary talks. Scott's amazing Podcast is found at emcrit.org.

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

Welcome to the beginning of a series of podcasts, released in video and audio formats, of the Social Media and Critical Care Conference 2013. This first podcast, in video format only, is the entire opening ceremony of SMACC 13 filmed 11th March, featuring the SMACC 13 opening video. In the spirit of free, open access medical education, we appreciate all of the hands which have contributed to makin...