Conference Reports

SMACC 2019 opened with patient stories, grief and compassionate communication before moving into bedside critical care. This report covers obstetric emergencies, echocardiography and prehospital trauma debates, showing how the Sydney meeting connected technical decisions with the people receiving care.

Kat Evans shares her perspective on emergency medicine in South Africa in this recording from St Emlyn’s Live 2018. The post offers video and audio versions of her presentation, with links to badEM and related accounts of working and learning in South African emergency departments.

Simon Carley brings together ten trauma papers and resources for the 2019 TraumaUK conference. The selection spans prehospital plasma, airway management, resuscitation, head injury, emergency laparotomy and paediatric splenic injury, ending with the Zero Point Survey and preparation before resuscitation begins.

Explore the papers and resources Simon Carley selected for SASEM 2019 in Jeddah. This conference reading list brings together prehospital resuscitation, airway management, oxygen therapy, chest and head injury, cardiac arrest prognostication and the Zero Point Survey, with links to earlier critical appraisals.

Clare Richmond discusses continuing development in prehospital and resuscitation practice in this presentation recorded at St Emlyn’s Live 2018. The accompanying introduction describes her focus on principles, training and practice, with a recording for clinicians interested in developing themselves and their colleagues.

The final day of the Intensive Care Society’s 2018 meeting brought together research updates and questions about the outcomes patients value. This report covers frailty, predictive technology, delirium and organ donation, alongside reflections on careful clinical care and the limits of simple solutions.