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Summary: These are the talks recorded live at the last SMACC in 2019. Coda 2020 is set to explode outside Critical Care, and include everyone in healthcare industry. Coming to Melbourne 28.09-02.10.2020, it is the festival of learning you cannot afford to miss. For more information go: codachange.org

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Podcasts:

 When everything is not COVID | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:12

In the part 2 of the special podcast with Simon Carley we touch on the issues of cognitive bias, that everything you see is COVID-related. Surrounded by the sea of COVID, just how do you manage the strokes, the acute myocardial infarcts, fractured neck aphemas, and the rest of it amidst this catastrophe? Simon shares his thoughts on the life outside COVID.

 What to believe & when to change? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:17

The legendary professor Simon Carley is joining us all the way from Manchester, UK to talk about positive innovations and evidence based agility during the pandemic. There is a fine balance between being slow to change and missing out on something that might benefit the patients, and jumping in too quickly into something harmful. What can we do about this coronavirus, how can we treat it? The pressure to change is so high that the people are losing the plot with the evidence based medicine.

 Innovation in Critical Care during the times of COVID-19 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:04

Haney Mallemat is sharing his experiences in Baltimore with Roger and Oli, talking innovation during the pandemic, and the phases of creating and culling, as well as the importance of communication in the implementation stages. It's all about finding balance between what would protect you as a provider and give good outcomes for the patient. And sticking to the five principles for assessing new treatments and processes - Safe, Simple, Familiar, Reproducible and Robust.

 COVID-19 in NYC - A slow motion mass casualty: Part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:36

This is part 2 of the special podcast featuring Reuben Strayer, sharing his first hand experience of the COVID-19 situation in New York with Ashley Liebig, the medical operations commander for the Travis County and a flight nurse. "There was only a brief period between when we first started noticing coronavirus and when seemingly everyone in the city had coronavirus", "emergency providers are working in an environment that resembles a lake filled with coronavirus".

 COVID-19 in NYC - A slow motion mass casualty: Part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:19

This is part 1 of the special podcast featuring Reuben Strayer and Ashley Liebig, sharing their first hand experience of the COVID-19 situation in New York. "So many people in the region got infected at the same time, long before we were paying any attention to it. And as the patients got sicker, we started to notice a few things, such as this was oxygen deficit we never seen before".

 Does fear and uncertainty impact communication in critical care resuscitation teams? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:47

Liz, Roger, Chris and Jon talk about front line communication and interdepartmental collaboration becoming the norm during the pandemic. If one good thing can come about from this COVID-19 crisis, it's that it could help us, staff members, but also more importantly, the patients in the future.

 Difficult Intubation in the highly infectious respiratory patient | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:44

In this episode we are breaking down the case of a particular difficult airway case published online by Chris Hicks earlier, and discovering that the approach is not all that different to the guiding principles, communications and checklists we would have used in the non-COVID related intubations. Bottom line, COVID or no COVID, best way to manage a difficult intubation is via the tried and tested emergency resuscitation procedures that have proven to be safe, effective, simple and familiar.

 Emergency intubation in the crashing critical patient with infectious respiratory pathogens. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:50

This is the first in a three part series dealing with the process for emergency intubation in the crashing patient with the novel corona virus (COVID-19). Here we discuss the technical protocols and the nomenclature around aerosol generating and airborne type precautions. Importantly, we also discuss the recent decision by some UK and Australasian bodies to designate chest compressions as a non-aerosol generating procedure, a decision that has caused ripples of confusion with different craft groups.

 There's nothing Novel about the effect of COVID on Gender Equality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:08

Mary Freer, Roger Harris and Jane Sloane digging deep into the issues of gender equality during the current pandemic. At least 70% of those in the front line as health and community workers are women- and so they have a higher exposure to the virus. But often policies are designed by men, with no diverse representation of women, highlighting the issues of social inclusion. One thing is certain, when women contribute to strategies, we save lives.

 Human connection: you choose the future | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:49

Why are we all so tired and hungry? Mary Freer, Jesse Spurr and Fiona Kerr talk about the value of human connection, and the effects of communication technology has on human brain. We find ourselves going into inertia, different parts of our brains are trying to look for information as we live in the emerging environment. And this makes you very fatigued. The good news is that what if going to come out of this is our choice.

 How do we communicate when there can be no visitors during COVID-19 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:55

Today Roger and Liz invite Angela Tonge, the Intensive Care and Trauma Social Worker, to talk about how distressing it is to not to be able to have the families visit patients in the ICU due to the COVID-19 crisis. With the focus on treatment, family distress has been out of sight, out of mind. And the distress of someone dying in the ICU is immense.

 How can healthcare workers keep fit to stay well | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:21

The muscle whisperer Kym Siddons, talks with Mary Freer, Roger Harris and Oli Flower about sprinkling self care into your day. How important it is to be checking in with your body, and incorporating movement into your routine. Little movements can make a lot of difference, like shifting up your body weight may provide a welcome relief, or a covert stretch alleviate lower back pain. Great tips that are easy to implement.

 Eating well to keep healthy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:07

If you're finding yourself reaching for a bowl of cereal late at night after a long and stressful shift at work, you're not alone. Roger Harris, Mary Freer and Emma Strutt talk diet, and what to do when your body is craving quick release carbs.

 Pandemic kindness | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:49

Jane Munro takes us through the Pandemic Kindness project, and the way the Maslow's hierarchy of needs is applied in the current times of the COVID-19. We have to get the basics right, psychological safety at work is important.

 Understanding how human factors affect teams and safety during COVID-19 | File Type: audio/mp4 | Duration: 24:48

Human factors are affecting our performance day to day. How do we make it easy for other people to work with us? Covering a wide array of issues, from PPE to simulation, Martin Bromiley, Liz Crowe and Oli Flower share valuable communications tactics, and the ways human factors affect teams and safety during the COVID-19 crisis.

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