ED keen doctor from Adelaide. Interested in medical simulation, soft skills, and disaster medicine.
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined May 2018
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Declan Brady retweeted
I don’t know who wrote this in the lift I just got into but if you wanted to sum up international approaches to healthcare safety or staff wellbeing, this would be it.
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Challenging several weeks ahead.
A few questions.
How will these hospital and ICU beds be staffed? What about primary care? What about ED?
We need a workforce plan. We need coordination between state and federal governments.
We need honest, courageous leadership.
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Today the RAH is needing to increase COVID capacity - however they are unable to do so due to ambulance shortages. Transfers out of the RAH are still waiting over 20hrs for an available ambulance. #saparli
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It’s now clear his government was not ready. We’ve seen the pictures of the long queues for COVID testing. Today there were reports of interstate travellers giving up waiting nearly 5 hours for their obligatory test on arrival and just going to the cricket without having the test – at Adelaide, South Australia
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Today is the first day of SA Health’s no ramping direction. Multiple crews ramped. An 89yo patient was ramped for almost 3 hours. A direction without a Govt willing to provide additional capacity, funding or resources will not resolve ramping. #saparli #stopramping – at Adelaide, South Australia
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Husband in motorbike accident this morn. Taken by excellent @SA_Ambulance to Murray Bridge. Sees Dr. Needs transfer to RAH for internal scans. No ambulances can do today. No beds in Murray Bridge. Night ahead in ER there. Broken system @SAHealth @marshall_steven
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3/ A wee bit of poison is worse then none, but better than a big gulp of the stuff.
Masks, social distancing may not take #SARSCoV2 exposure to zero in all circumstances, but they reduce how many viruses a person inhales -- and that is literally a matter of life, or death.
😷😷
Declan Brady retweeted
For anyone who wasn't listening at the back...
EM management of hypertension:
1) The only step in the EM management of HTN is referral to primary care.
2) A safe blood pressure is a BP with no symptoms.
3) If you are going to treat HTN it should be in resus, intravenously.
Do not use amlodipine acutely - it takes too long. It doesn't work (shades of regular phone calls to me as the med reg at 2am)
#bgsconf
Declan Brady retweeted
We don't want wellbeing rooms or yoga sessions, we want:
Car parking spaces.
Lockers.
Desks.
Access to computers.
Rotas in advance.
A place to rest.
Respect.
Declan Brady retweeted
This was shared by someone on FaceBook from Reddit. A healthcare worker’s perspective of working the frontline on Sydney. Please read the entire thing. #COVID19nsw 😔💔
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Relational coordination theory suggests high functioning teams have shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect.
Reflection on these relational foundations help us identify unique ways to get just 1% better.
@GetCuriousNow
@SocraticEM #smacc
heller.brandeis.edu/relation…
Declan Brady retweeted
Tips for managing the dying #asthmatic 🌬 from @CriticalCareNow:
- ketamine to settle
- epi to bronchodilate
- early NIV to avoid fatigue
- gentle vents to avoid breath stacking
#SMACC
Declan Brady retweeted
‘Dual coding’ is a rehearsal 🧠
By practicing / simulating fearful scenarios your brain can’t tell difference in the ‘fake’ & ‘true’ then blunts stress response when confronted with it in real practice
@smaccteam @HumanFact0rz @drgeoffhealy @SmaccForce
Declan Brady retweeted
Gorman: the value proposition of medicine has gone. We don’t require doctors to retain vast quantities of information anymore. We do need communicators to help our patients make decisions. Yet we still try to recruit students who retain information
Librarian - not library #SMACC
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“I am John Hinds. I am going to take care of you. I am not going to leave you until you are save.” - @DocJohnHinds #inspiration #example
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Gill Hicks this morning at #SMACC2019 on the epiphany of ‘seeing each other as humans first - and everything else second.’ What an absolute inspiration to all of us. @luke_vater @jwbramwell @annaazeng @BenWingrove2 @MeganM_EM
Declan Brady retweeted
The excitement is palpable and the stage set for an incredible week here at #SMACC 🇦🇺🎉 @jwbramwell @jessleeransom @MedDeclan @luke_vater @BenWingrove2 @annaazeng
Declan Brady retweeted
A new documentary examines the legacy of air ambulance campaigner John Hinds: bbc.in/2DwwqOO
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ASSCC Trauma Skills Day.
Registration Sunday 9/9/18.
It's going to be big.
Follow the link below and check out the Facebook event for further details. facebook.com/TeamASSCC/posts…