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Welcome to the Intensive Care Network

The Intensive Care Network (ICN) is an online resource for healthcare professionals involved in Critical Care.The site is primarily aimed at Australian and New Zealand intensive care trainees and those specialists who are in the first few years post-fellowship. However, anyone who practices intensive care medicine is welcome to access the site and participate. Registration is FREE. To find out more about the site and its authors, click here.

SMACC: SONOWARS Rules of Engagement

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If you're coming to SMACC, then BE PART OF SONOWARS

Sonowars will test the ultrasound capabilities of teams in a challenging and fun format.

It promises to be one of the highlights of SMACC.

  • Register on-line before the conference, or at the Philips exhibition booth at SMACC.
  • 3 players per team (goes without saying that all must be conference delegates!)
  • If you’re on your own, no problems - put your name down at the Philips booth and we’ll find you a team.
  • Qualification for the Final occurs at the Philips exhibition booth – first 2 days of the conference. Your team will need to perform an eFAST on a live model, and then answer a series of ultrasound loops. Teams are ranked based on the accuracy of your team’s scanning technique and time taken to perform the scans, and your speed and accuracy in interpreting the ultrasound loops.
  • The team rankings will be listed at the Philips booth, and between plenary sessions.
  • The Final will be between the best 2 teams. This is an afternoon plenary session on Tuesday 12th March, 2013.
  • For the Final, both teams will be on stage, and the winning team will need to perform live scanning and interpret ultrasound loops quicker and more accurately than the other team, as determined by our illustrious judging panel (with a little help from the audience). Look out for some distractions along the way!

SIN Meeting 28th february 2013

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LAST WEEK BEFORE END of EARLY BIRD!

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Don't miss the EARLY BIRD DEADLINE (31.01.2013)! That's today, folks!!

Register here for SMACC now!

Why?

  • Sensational line up of speakers
  • The ultimate critical care conference, bringing the best of Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, anaesthetics, pre-hospital and rural critical care. 
  • Superb venue
  • Unique use of new media to improve your conference experience
  • If you're into social media, you cannot miss it
  • If you've never heard of social media and its applications for health care, this is the perfect place to start!

Find out more here.

It's not too late to get a PK talk in either, the deadline for this has been extended!

59. Sumesh Arora on Dysbarism

 Sumesh ARORA 

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 Podcast: DYSBARISM 

Sumesh Arora is an intensivist from Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney.

In this podcast he talks about what dysbarism is, and the role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Click READ MORE for the podcast and slides...

The Intensive Care Society

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If you're from the UK, you will be familiar with the ICS already, but if not...

The Intensive Care Society is the representative body in the UK for intensive care professionals and patients and is dedicated to the delivery of the highest quality of critical care to patients. 

They perform many functions for the intensive care community, such as the production of guidelines and standards, organising national meetings, training courses and focus groups.

They represent Intensive Care in wide ranging organisations from the Royal Colleges to the Department of Health and other organisations and societies with an associated stake or interest. They are also represented on the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care Medicine.

Check out their website, where they have lots of useful and interesting resources. It's always interesting to see guidelines that others have spent many hours making, such as these ones on an approach to Adult Organ and Tissue Donation in the UK.

SMACC: END of EARLY BIRD

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Don't miss the EARLY BIRD DEADLINE (31.01.2013)!

Register here for SMACC now!

Why?

  • Sensational line up of speakers
  • The ultimate critical care conference, bringing the best of Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, anaesthetics, pre-hospital and rural critical care. 
  • Superb venue
  • Unique use of new media to improve your conference experience
  • If you're into social media, you cannot miss it
  • If you've never heard of social media and its applications for health care, this is the perfect place to start!

Find out more here.

It's not too late to get a PK talk in either, the deadline for this has been extended!

The CICM community is getting its pitchforks ready

Registration for the College of Intensive Care Medicine: Australia & New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting in Wellington opens tommorow. Last year's event was chock full of things we thought we could monitor but had difficulty interpreting. If you are a CICM member you can still access the talks from last year's ASM through the member's portal. This year the conference is going to town on medical, and particularly critical care, dogma. Looking through the program feels a bit like being told that we've been lied to all this time. 

So to separate truth from fantasy, the College has gathered together international and home-grown heroes such as Professors Luciano Gattinoni, Rinaldo Bellomo, Simon Finfer, Bala Venkatesh, Drs Ross Freebairn, Stephen Streat, Thomas John Morgan, Chris Nickson and Oli FLower (... Huh? What!? How did those last two suddenly get credibility on this kind of stage?).

CICM ASM 2013 site  /  CICM ASM 2013 Program  /  CICM ASM 2013 Registration

SMACC SIMWARS Finalists Announced

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As if there wasn't already enough incentive to come to SMACC...

After much deliberation, the SMACC organising committee have finally decided on which 4 teams have made it to the final solution: the SIMWARS finals.

This will held on day 3 of SMACC (the 13th of March). There are rumours of a couple of late entries which may still make it so...

Click below to see some of the great entry videos, and see who made the cut.

Resuscitation 2013 in VEGAS

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Experience the Resuscitation Conference dedicated to the care of the critically ill and injured patient.

The 8th Annual Resuscitation conference is being held May 1-5th, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  • Learn the latest in acute care medicine given by award winning speakers in emergency medicine, critical care, pediatrics and trauma surgery
  • Enjoy the main course and also participate in the optional courses including Critical Care Bootcamp and Pediatric Emergency Bootcamp
  • Enjoy all of this in the exclusive setting of Wynn Encore Resort in Las Vegas

Learn more at www.resus2013.com

58. Tacon on Lipid Rescue Therapy

 Cath TACON 

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 Podcast: INTRALIPID RESCUE THERAPY 

This BCC talk is by Cath Tacon, an Intensivist whose currently working in Alice Springs.

In this talk, Cath tells you everything you need to know about lipid emulsion therapy.

Also found a good blog posts on the topic here and here.

Incidentally Cath has just written an excellent review paper on bacterial meningitis in kids, which you can have for free here.

Click READ MORE for the podcast and slides...

TAPNA 2013

Got a hankering for toxicology?

Interested in forensic toxicology?

Want to know the latest changes in Paracetomol (Acetominophen) toxicitiy?

The get yourself to Newcastle in May for the 2nd annual scientific meeting of the Toxicology And Poisons Network Australasia in May.

The conference is being organised and run by Dr Michael A Downes, who is the Director of Emergency Medicine Training at the Calvary Mater in Newcastle and a VMO Consultant Toxicologist for the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre.

For more details contact the TAPNA Conference Secretariat on Tel: +61 2 4973 6573 or Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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