I recently posted about the JMB Foundation, and the personal connection I had with this story and the organisation. Some friends of James have also started the Step Back Think campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of street violence. I’d encourage you to...
This is an interview I did back in March at the SMACC Conference in Sydney which had to go on the back-burner while we got the course up and running. Peter Fritz, an Emergency Physician from Melbourne (and his Anaesthetist mate Nicholas Chrimes) have created something...
In 2006, I worked for 6 months as the Clinical Forensic Medicine Registrar at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM). This job involved seeing “live” people with forensic issues, often victims and occasionally perpetrators of assaults, to...
The inaugural ETM Course was held last weekend in Melbourne, and by all accounts it was a huge success. The participants were a mix of ED Registrars, ED Consultants, some rural GP’s and even a dual ED/ICU trainee who’d just passed his ICU Fellowship exam! ...
Inspired by the recent ACRRM RMA 2013 Conference JAMIT video competition (Just A Minute Instant Tutorial), we made a little video about one of our favourite trauma procedures. Trauma patients frequently arrive in shock, peripherally shut-down, with collapsed veins....