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Learning about human factors in the emergency department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You’re in the paediatric emergency department, typing some notes for the child you’ve just discharged. Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. Promoting hot debriefing in an emergency department. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. The western journal of emergency medicine.

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A Simplified Approach to Managing the Difficult Airway in Children

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Airway complications are also more likely to occur in the emergency department (ED) than in the operating theatre. It can also able to be applied in multiple scenarios, not just the operating theatre, and it more accurately depicts real-world practice. Intubation of the Critically Unwell Child in the Emergency Department.

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The ‘Hidden C’

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Introduction: Civility Matters Healthcare environments, particularly emergency departments, are characterised by high levels of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity ( VUCA ). Incivility and clinical performance, teamwork, and emotions: a randomized controlled trial. How do you manage this situation?

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Getting everyone to sing in harmony

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Facilitator-in-chief’ is my role when leading the ED Musos virtual choir and orchestra, and this also applies to my job in the hospital as Director of the Emergency Department. I love emergency medicine because, as Dan Sandberg once said, it is ‘ the most interesting 15 minutes of every other speciality ’.

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Why the interest in pre-hospital? Why not?!

Mind The Bleep

Im currently in my third year of working in a rural district general hospital Accident and Emergency Department, and one of the things that has struck me most is the use of pre-hospital medicine. Enough about me and my experience… What can you do within pre-hospital care as part of your career?