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Webb delineates the case for experience over hierarchy in advanced resuscitation scenarios.

Brazil illustrates the depth of communication required in medical practice between people within health care delivery systems.

Little's erroneously named presentation underlines the importance of including complementary and alternative medicines in the clinical picture.

Dawson draws on his experience in areas of high prevalence organophosphate poisoning to optimise management of sick patients.

Buckley analyses the details and prescribes a more logical remedy for a toxic overdose.

Isbister bites into the how, why, when, and what for of antivenom use.

Litton investigates the use of the intra-aortic balloon pump in high risk patients.

Roger Pye offers up a graphic description of advances in ECMO and ECMO retrieval services.

Sharon Kay puts SMACC front and centre while polishing up your echo skills.

Larkin pulls a few hairy ecg's out of the bag before offering the solace of a host of brilliant foamed ecg references.

Roger Harris exacts the forgotten part of the cardiac output equation and considers venous return in the management of the septic patient.

Hurn talks us through thrombelastography on the front line.

Burns gives us the finer points of scalpel do's and don't's.

Faulder weighs in on intraluminal therapy in acute stroke management.

Brannigan busts the current recommendations on the use of stroke thrombolysis by showing no evidence of benefit.

Flower draws from experience to bring clarity to spinal cord management in the acute setting.

Seppelt joins the dots on the big picture of neuro-critical airway management.

Carley chews through numbers and logic to arrive at some good reasons for diagnostic indeterminacy.

Nickson steps back to consider the metacognition of it all in the pursuit of minimising medical errors.

Reid's not to be missed talk takes medical care to a whole new level. Prepare to be moved.