Junior Medical Officer – Self Help Need Some therapy? – watch the UK TV Series “Cardiac Arrest” – 1990s JMO Cult Classic Need Some Training? Westmead Simulation Lab (SiLECT) is here fore you: – Every Wednesday at 3 30pm for After Hours JMOs on relief term (and for interested observers) – ALS course – sign … More Westmead New Interns: Induction Week
Cardiac and Lung Surgery Patient Advice Significant Cardiothoracic Surgery has a significant impact on patients and family. Timely and appropriate post-operative advice is important for patient empowerment and understanding of the period of convalescence following surgery. The following advice is for patients and carers of those having recently undergone a heart or lung operation. Below … More Cardiothoracic Surgery – Patient Centred Post Op Advice
IV Cannulation Guide 2015 IV Cannulation, basic, but what you do matters! Here is a suggested approach for Junior Doctors in the Emergency Department: (Use a ‘Green’ Sticker – or your local alternative method to document the date of insertion) References: 1) MJA: www.mja.com.au/journal/2013/199/10/think-you-insert-intravenous-catheter 2) EMA: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23623052 3) NSW Health Policy: Online – http://www0.health.nsw.gov.au/policies/gl/2013/GL2013_013.html PDF – http://www0.health.nsw.gov.au/policies/gl/2013/pdf/GL2013_013.pdf
Handwashing The Touch of Death – Hand Hygiene This topic was important at Medical School. You got at least one mark in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in, well, pretty much every OSCE exam. Whether you lost or gained marks for hand hygiene in the mandatory Basic Life Support ‘CPR’ station is uncertain but … More Semmelweis, Germ Theory and Hand Hygiene
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Clinical Governance was a day of two halves; a morning of hard hitting clinical governance in the form of the morbidity and mortality review, and the airway audit. The afternoon was a brief look at the management of head injuries followed by an entertaining simulation and skills station. Morbidity…
