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Resident Education 11.08.16

Thursday’s Program: 14.00 – 15.00: ED Morbidity and Mortality Meeting 15.00 – 16.00: Airway – tips, tricks and learning from our mistakes! (Dr Maurice Chan & Claire Allerton) Please have a look at this great Ventilation Video by EM Updates’

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Resident Education 28.07.16

Topic: Neonatal Resuscitation Thursday’s Program: 14.00 – 14.50: Neonatal Resus SIM  15.00 – 15.30: Case presentation (Dr Claire Allerton) 15.30 – 16.00: Umbilical Vein Catheterisation (Practical) Pre-reading: neonate ARC flowchart neonatal assessment neonatal airway

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Resident Teaching 30.06.16

This weeks topic: Toxicology Thursday Program: 14.00-14.45: Simulation (either in resus or level 5 SIM room)  (Barbie Payne & Claire Allerton) 14.45 – 15.00: SIM debrief and ECG interpretation 15.00-16.00: Rapid sequence intubation including practical session (Dr Claire Allerton) Pre-reading:

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Resident Teaching 16.06.16

This week’s topic: Respiratory Thursday’s Program: 14.00-14.50: Non-Invasive Ventilation (Barbie Payne & Claire Allerton) 15.00-15.30: TBC (Dr Kate Faithorn) 15.30-16.00: ABG Interpretation (Dr Claire Allerton) Pre-reading: Great podcast by Dr Scott Weingart about NIV. Emcrit NIV Podcast  

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Resident Teaching 02.06.16

This week’s topic: Cardiology Thursday Program: 14.00 – 15.00: Morbidity & Mortality Meeting 15.00 – 15.20: ECG Interpretation & Answers (Dr Claire Allerton) 15.20-16.00: ECG Workshop (Dr Claire Allerton) Pre-reading: Please come to the session with your interpretation of the following ECGs.

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Resident Teaching 19.05.16

This week’s topic: Paediatrics Thursday’ program: 14.00 – 15.00: Management of Paediatric Anaphylaxis (Margot Treloar, Clinical Nurse Consultant, NSW Anaphylaxis Education Program) 15.00 – 15.30: Paediatric Elbows (Dr Rachel Beer) 15.30 – 16.00: Paediatric Xray Interpretation (Dr Claire Allerton) The

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Resident Teaching 21.04.16

This week’s topic: Trauma/Plastic Surgery Thursday Program: 1400 – 1500: Burns (Dr Johnny Kwei – plastic surgeon) 1500 – 1600: Facial fractures (Dr Johnny Kwei – plastic surgeon) Recommended pre-reading: LITFL – major burns Q&A LITFL – facial fracture Q&A

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Resident Teaching 14.04.16

This weeks topic: Cardiology Thursday’s program: 14.00 – 14.30: Cardiology presentation (Dr Helen Ward) 14.30 – 14.45: ECG interpretation (Dr Claire Allerton) 14.45- 15.00: break 15.00 – 16.00: DC Cardioversion Practical/SIM (Dr Claire Allerton) Please look at these 2 ECG’s

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Resident Teaching 07.04.16

This week’s topic: Trauma (continued) Thursdays program: 14.00-1450: Trauma CXR’s and interpretation (Claire Allerton) 15.00-1600: eFAST – practical session (Claire Allerton) Pre-reading: A suggested CXR interpretation mnemonic Please also have a look at Cliff Reid’s eFAST podcast which can be found under

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Resident Teaching 24.03.16

This weeks program: 1400-1440: Obstetric & Gynaecology Emergencies (Dr George Davison) 1445-1600: Ascites & Therapeutic Paracentesis – presentation and practical session (Dr Claire Allerton) Pre-reading: Abdominal paracentesis

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