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Education Theory for the Clinician - Jonathan Sherbino will improve the quality and efficiency of how you teach.

Shreves shows palliative care providers how to re-align with their patients and provide the highest quality end-of-life experience.

Roger & Oli go through the latest information about registration for smaccDUB, discussing the program, workshops, student rego, the ticket release, why Dublin, other pre-confernece events, the social program and accommodation. See you in Dublin!

The battle is on...who will win out? The heroic healthcare individual or the faceless safety checklist? Brindley takes saftey talks to a new level. A true SMACC highlight.

John Hinds shows us why he will be so dearly missed in this superb talk from SMACC Chicago. This is about resuscitative thoracotomy but really so much more.

Opioids are extraordinary agents that have been used for millennia for the relief of pain and suffering; however, the history of opioids is also one of abuse and addiction. In the US, we are in the midst of a devastating iatrogenic chapter in this history, a prescription opioid epidemic that kills 15,000 Americans per year by overdose and destroys hundreds of thousands of lives and families.In this presentation we will consider the magnitude and consequences of the current epidemic; describe how clinical organizations and clinicians were appropriated by the pharmaceutical industry so that Americans–5% of the world’s population–consume more prescription opioids than the rest of the world combined; and discuss strategies for managing patients who present to emergency departments with acute or chronic pain complaints that account for our competing mandates to palliate and protect.These strategies center on an assessment of the likelihood that using opioids will deliver benefit or cause harm. For patients at low

Kath Maitland, the author of the FEAST study, talks about where we go now with fluids in kids, following FEAST

Amal Mattu gives Career advice with help from The Princess Bride

Liz Crowe delves into the deeper issues surrounding critical care and religion. She explores how religion influences patients and their families, why doctors can push against faith, and how the healthcare community can integrate an acceptance of faith into their care. The ultimate goal in working with any patient and their family is connection. This guarantees respect, integrity and ensures all communication is understood and goals are worked on together to optimise health outcomes. Connection is also a protective factor for patients and staff as it builds resilience and wellbeing. Health professionals are often uncomfortable or annoyed if people of faith want to integrate their beliefs and hopes into medical conversations and outcomes. Health professionals may perceive faith or religion as a threat or oppositional to science and the reality of the situation. Ideally faith may be an additional resource for health professionals to use with patients and their families in times of crisis, uncertainty, and end

John Hinds gives his last talk - on the subject he was most passionate about. Back with popular demand, More Cases from the Races.

  Chris Ross & Oli Flower discuss the latest update on SMACC Chicago - an incredible cadaver workshop with small group expert tuition on a huge range of critical care procedures. At a hugely discounted price. This will sell out so get in there fast.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... Watch our fearless masters of Sim battle for galactic supremacy on the SMACC main stage. 

Own the ventilator! Irma Bilgrami lays down a framework for analysis of ventilator settings and waveforms to enhance your daily practise.

Integrity, Reflection and Professionalism. Stuart Lane examines how we respond to mistakes, errors and poor outcomes in clinical practise.

Treating the mind AND the body. Imogen Mitchell on putting the 'person' back in 'patient'.

Penny Stewart's enthralling tales of high acutity cases in rural and remote Australia. A unique take on consistently challenging case-mixes.

The quest for normality. Chris Nickson reflects on our perpetual number chasing. What constitutes 'normal' in critical care patients.

Cracking the chest. Michaela Cartner on the nuances of cardiac arrest post cardiac surgery.