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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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Neonatal Resus for the Pre-Hospital Non-Neonatologist

Greater Sydney Area HEMS

It is a rare but confronting situation where a pre-hospital and retrieval medicine team are presented with a sick newborn. As a pre-hospital and retrieval service, it’s rare for us to even be around in the first few minutes of a baby’s life, but as our colleagues described, not impossible. Place a sats probe on the right hand.

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Speaking urgent care flow fluently

St. Emlyn

St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Simplifying urgent care data translation is essential for hospital flow improvement. This post provides a perspective on how to achieve this. The post Speaking urgent care flow fluently appeared first on St.Emlyn's.

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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. Just like a hospital, or a health system, an orchestra needs every player doing their thing and doing it well. It is all about pattern recognition.

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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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Emergency Anthropology

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The Hospital’s Cultural Landscape In the heart of the hospital, where medical emergencies unfold, and teams collaborate under intense pressure, the significance of culture becomes apparent. The Essence of Team Culture The emergency department is the “watering hole” of the hospital.