International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous ICU conference (other than SMACC) has been on this week.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne was there feeding us live reports as a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear Li's third report.

International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous ICU conference (other than SMACC) has been on this week.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne was there feeding us live reports as a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear about day 2.

International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous (other than SMACC) ICU conference in the world is underway.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne is there at the moment and sending over a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear about day 1.

SMACC: Medical Student Review

One of the great aspects of the SMACC conference was that it had broad appeal to a wide spectrum of health professionals involved with critical care.

Three medical students (Arghya Gupta, Amy Cui and Mel Chin) have written their own review of the conference.

We promise that we are not related to them and, in the spirit of FOAMed, have paid them nothing!

We thank them for their honest opinions, and for their time, in writing this review.

"Hey there", say the enthusiastic emergency department registrar, "I'm glad I caught you. I've just seen this 51 year old lady who came in to the department with pleuritic left sided chest pain and feeling a bit short of breath. She flew in from Buenos Aires 3 days ago. She, s a bit tachycardic (105bpm), tachypnoeic (24bpm) and her SpO2 is 93% on room air before putting her on a Venturi mask at an FiO2 of 0.4. 

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The build up was unprecedented. The conference was novel. And the conversation continues.

Just in case you've had your head under a rock, I'm talking about SMACC 2013.

SMACC stands for Social Media and Critical Care and it is the title of a new kind of critical care conference that was held at the start of this week (March 11th - 12th), at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. It was an experiment that was born out of a collaborative effort between a group of emergency, intensive care and prehospital medicine practitioners as a way to delivier a novel conference experience.

LIVE. FREE.

If you can't make it to SMACC, but want to still be part of the action, don't worry.

• Follow SMACC on Twitter with the #SMACC2013
• Look at the pictures as they go up live on the SMACC Facebook page
• Watch Minh Le Cong's live Google Hangouts from the conference every evening
• And even more excitingly, you can watch the first session LIVE and FREE.
• Just Follow this link (which will only be live at 8am Monday 11th March)

The greatest critical care conference ever now has an app to guide you around. Whether you are using a tablet device, a smart phone or a laptop, there is a supported format for you to download.

• iPhone / iPad - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smacc-2013/id602831182?ls=1&;mt=8
• Android device - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.co.smartshow.smacc13
• Blackberry and laptops - https://smacc13.showgizmo.com/m/

You can also find links to the SMACC Conference App from the SMACC (http://smacc.net.au), Intensive Care Network, Life In The Fast Lane and PHARM  websites, or search for “smacc 2013 app” with your favourite web search engine. Read on for more details ...

The PK SMACC Talk Comp is an incredible phenomenon.

A massive thank you to all those who have submitted entries and made this wonderful biubble of FOAMed!

They can be seen in all their glory here and will continue to live on, long after SMACC 2013.

It was very hard to pick a winner, but the SMACC crew have cast their votes.

To find out who won, click Read more...