Our course returned as a pre conference workshop for the 2025 SEMS ASM. Participants experienced the full gamut of inter and intra-hospital critical care transport.
Next up - Sri Lanka in May 2025.
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Friday, 28 February 2025
Saturday, 14 December 2024
Pre conference workshop in 2025 for SEMS ASM
We are back with a pre conference workshop for SEMS 2025 on Feb 26th.
Fins out more and register at this link:
Thursday, 12 January 2023
Friday, 28 May 2021
Practicalities of transport - small adult edition!
A talk on the principles of transporting paediatric patients for the STACC virtual conference in May 2021. The principles are extrapolated from experience in retrieval, ED & critical care and can be applied to adults and intra hospital movement as well.
Monday, 16 December 2019
SLEMCON 2019
We had another fun filled time in Sri Lankan Emergency Medicine Conference in Colombo. I highly recommend this conference for EM trainees. Good education in a great location.
More importantly, it was heartwarming to see the previous Sri Lankan EM trainees now become post graduates and instructors in the course. Their debriefing skills and iinstruction techniques are second to none.
Here are the workshop pics. Our next workshop FYI will be held in February at SEMS 2020.
More importantly, it was heartwarming to see the previous Sri Lankan EM trainees now become post graduates and instructors in the course. Their debriefing skills and iinstruction techniques are second to none.
Here are the workshop pics. Our next workshop FYI will be held in February at SEMS 2020.
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| The whole gang |
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| You have to commit - no fences in our scenario! |
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| Keeping calm ... easy to say though |
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| Whatever you do - don't drop the baby... |
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Nul pointes?
Cliff Reid surmises that preparing yourself BEFORE the stress and immediacy of critical care tasks. Zen achieved via zero points... survey that is.
Not just for pre-hospital teams but also for ED situations.
Friday, 22 March 2019
Moral injury
Dr Zubin Damania does great parody songs but his rants are equally engaging. This call to arms denounces the odious habit of blaming people rather than systems/institutions. A different viewpoint indeed but well thought out and has evidence at its core. Other very good links on this topic:
- St-Emlyns podcast on Med students and moral injury
- WRAP EM on the entire wellness/resilience spectrum
- Dr Ken Milne on his personal journey of burnout
How you perceive these challenges (in the ED setting) depends on your world view however your perspective might be influenced by the following;
- Stepping into a non metropolis resource limited setting
- Being a patient or having a loved one be a patient
- Talk with an "old timer" ED Doc. If they're still in this challenging environment after decades, they must be doing something right.
Systems inherently lack pathos so our efforts must be channeled into doing what best for patients and peer monitoring/support for ourselves/nurses/students.
As always... fight the power!
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