What can a conference built around social media offer a clinical researcher? Reflecting on SMACC Gold in 2014, Rick Body argues that accessible presentation, open education and online discussion can help research reach practising clinicians and make its findings useful beyond the journal page.
SMACC Gold: All Social Media, No Science? Read More
How well do prehospital triage tools identify major trauma in children? This 2014 journal club examines a PERUKI study, exploring over-triage, the uncertainty created by very few seriously injured patients, and the problem of testing ambulance tools in children who arrived without an ambulance.
JC: Paediatric Major Trauma Triage Read More
Natalie May reflects on feeling like an impostor while speaking at SMACC Gold in 2014. Her account explores the pressure of teaching people whose opinions matter deeply, the support of the FOAM community and finding value in a contribution despite persistent self-doubt.
Who’s That Girl? Impostor Syndrome at #SMACCGold Read More
Could ROTEM help identify coagulation problems beyond trauma patients in the resuscitation room? This 2014 journal club reviews a small study in hypovolaemic shock, examining recruitment difficulties, the distinction between correlation and agreement, and the limits of an early proof-of-concept study.
JC. ROTEM for ED coagulopathy detection. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Iain Beardsell reflects on the kindness and sense of community he encountered at SMACC Gold in 2014. He considers how friendships formed through social media can deepen face to face, and what a compassionate conference culture might bring back to everyday emergency care.
The SMACCGold Conference – Reflections Read More
A short reading guide to two reviews of resuscitation research from 2013. The linked papers cover topics ranging from cardiac arrest prevention, basic life support and education to advanced life support, post-resuscitation care, prognostication and cardiac arrest centres.
JC: Rapid update on the resus pearls of 2013. St.Emlyn’s Read More
A 2014 journal club examines falling severe-sepsis mortality across Australian and New Zealand intensive care units between 2000 and 2012. It asks what improving outcomes might tell us about the whole package of care, while distinguishing historical comparisons from evidence for any single treatment.
JC: What has an awesome NNT of 5.8 for severe sepsis? St.Emlyn’s Read More
An initial response to the 2014 ProCESS trial of protocolised sepsis care. The post asks how changing background care, differences between patient populations and widespread adoption of resuscitation principles might affect the interpretation of a trial that challenged early goal-directed therapy.
JC: Is Early Goal Directed Therapy dead? St.Emlyn’s Read More
