The practice of coordinating, consulting and managing an entire acute clinical service in real-time is fairly unique to emergency medicine.
Central to this is the EPiC (or emergency physician in charge).
This is my mental model to EPIC-ing 🧠👊
https://www.stemlynsblog.org/an-epic-mental-model-st-emlyns/
Dr Mohammed Qandil, an Emergency Medicine and Critical Care consultant and member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, is head of the Emergency Department at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis which is in the south of Gaza. At the time of writing and since the beginning of October 2023 there have been over 24 000 reported Palestinian fatalities with over 61 000 injured. Less than one-third of Gaza’s hospitals are functional, millions are at imminent risk of famine and access to humanitarian assistance is minimal. I have been working in the Emergency Department in Khan Younis continuously since October 2023. Because of the hostilities and the danger surrounding myself and my colleagues, we have not been leaving the site during this time. The hospital has almost become like a closed camp: we sleep in the hospital, we eat in the hospital and essentially we are working 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The huge escalation in injured patients has meant that we have needed to expand the Emergency Department and critical care capacity. Nevertheless, we are always full. Most injuries we are seeing come as a result of being crushed under the rubble of collapsed buildings following bombardment and the vast majority of those injured are women and children. Often this happens when the patients are sleeping in their homes and subsequently, we see severe head, torso and limb injuries. To effectively deal with such volume and severity requires continuous operating theatre and critical care capacity. This demand for high acuity care frequently outstrips our ability to provide it and therefore we are endlessly having to …
Interesting interview for a number of reasons inc focus on the importance of digital infrastructure #sdoh #regulatedigitalplatforms
Watch NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pick apart this reporter's question during a joint press conference with Finnish PM Sanna Marin. He asked the pair 'are you two meeting because you're similar in age and got a lot of common stuff there?'
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#CovidIsNotOver and the virus presents the highest risk of transmission in indoor areas with poor ventilation.
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UK latest 26 Nov 2022:
📈2,086,820 currently predicted to have symptomatic Covid-19.
📈150,926 estimated new daily infections [24/11].
📈Winter wave imminent.
ICYMI: One dogged coroner, four needless deaths, and a stark conclusion: the health and social system is broken.
My read for The Sunday Times:
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