If you haven’t already, listen to self-proclaimed “hottie” Liz Crowe, social worker from the Mater, delivering a blistering smaccTALK on ‘swearing your way out of a crisis‘. I met up with her just before the session for a bit of advice on swearing before my own smaccTALK; she did suggest that gratuitous use of the …
Month: May 2014
The Four Yorkshiremen
Some of you may have read Ian Beardsell’s parody “What has Twitter ever do for us” (a take on Monty Python’s “What have the Romans ever done for us?”) – a nice synergy of humour and Emergency Medicine at StEmlyns I had always thought that “The Four Yorkshiremen” was vintage Python – but the original …
More smaccTALKS
Well the smaccGOLD talks are gaining momentum – I was gutted to miss John Hinds on the cricoid debate (so many good concurrents, so little time), but thankfully smaccTEAM are doling out the FOAMed love by making all talks available for sharing.Here’s Hinds on cricoid, Mallemat on fluid responsiveness and Weingart on cardiac arrests. Gold, …
“Sleeping with the Fishes” smaccUS June 2015
Sydney’s smacc2013 was hailed by Mike Cadogan as “the birth of FOAMed” (the conception being ICEM2012); rather than just ‘five guys in a bar talking about Twitter’, this conference raised the bar for inspiring those who care for the critically unwell patient. smaccGOLD built upon this – breaking down the traditional tribal barriers that …