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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. Ive always had a keen interest in pre-hospital medicine. Enter Nith Inshore Rescue!

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Sepsis alerts work! Just not in the patients who fire the alerts

PulmCCM

With financial penalties coming for noncompliance with the new rule, hospital administrators rapidly deployed the alerts to fire on all eligible inpatients. The SCREEN Trial SCREEN was a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial of an EMR alert for organ failure, conducted at 45 wards of 5 hospitals in Saudi Arabia from 2019 to 2021.

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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. There is leadership operating at many levels. Just like a hospital, or a health system, an orchestra needs every player doing their thing and doing it well.

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The ‘Hidden C’

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In such situations, ‘soft skills’ such as teamwork, compassionate leadership, strong interpersonal communication, and psychological safety are essential. Creating a culture of safety and respect through professional accountability: case study of the Ethos program across eight Australian hospitals. Australian Health Review.

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Learning about human factors in the emergency department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

As you arrive in resus, so too do half the children’s hospital. A study in Denmark in 2021 explored barriers to effective resuscitation in over 900 in-hospital resuscitations across six hospitals in Denmark. Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. It’s crowded and chaotic. It’s mayhem. Andenæs, E.,

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An Insight into Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs)

Mind The Bleep

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) is an umbrella organisation, with teams the final decider of how they operate. Your skills as a doctor need to be different to your hospital role or abilities. Team equipment, procedures, training schedules/frequency, and skill mix vary between teams greatly. What illnesses or injuries do we see?

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AI May Allow Physicians To Regain Their Humanity

ACEP Now

Her use of teaming as a verb aptly captures the fast-paced, flexible nature of teamwork in the ED. AI started to make its mark in the ED by maximizing the efficiency of certain tasks like patient triage, clinical presentation diagnosis, mortality prediction, clinical decision making, and operational workflow management (see Figure 1).