Healthcare costs associate with skin and soft tissue infections in the Torres Strait are substantial.

The implementation of effective preventative and primary care interventions may enable resources to be reallocated to address other health priorities in the #TorresStrait

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Why hasn’t group A strep (GAS) developed resistance to penicillin?

This is particularly odd given that other closely related gram-positive species (e.g., Strep pneumoniae) have resistant strains.

Given the global burden of disease, understanding GAS is essential...

Have you heard?? 🚨
DFTB's first ebook - a series looking at minor injuries
Book 1- Foundations heading your way 14/12/23
Follow the link here to sign up for more info:
dftbdigital.com/minor-injuries…

. #FOAMed #FOAMped This Week’s Morsel- Pediatric Sepsis Definition 2024 pedemmorsels.com/pediatric-seps…

Ben Lawton Fun journal club at RDH today, nice work Ben Lawton and team

Building a 'minimum viable community of practice'. Communities of practice (CoP) can be such powerful spaces for change. They enable people to share knowledge & experience & build collective capability for change. But what is are the bare minimum aspects that should be in place…

The use of ventilator-assisted preoxygenation during intubation of #CriticallyUnwell patients in an #AeromedicalRetrieval setting

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1111/1742-6…

@akmezlatona Gerben Keijzers

LifeFlight
Wiley Clinical Health ACEM

Amazing and impactful study which saves time and decreases nightmare of peds lines by using tagaderm+ tissue adhesives👌🏻👌🏻 #PEM #Research

Is this not the most impactful study in paediatrics ever?
How many sleepless nights can this save our patients and our teams 💉

Don’t you just hate it when kids IVs “fall out” and need re-siting? Things how to stop it. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

RU a First Nations academic leader interested in joining Menzies School of Health Research? 2 great jobs advertised today careers.menzies.edu.au/job-details/qu… & careers.menzies.edu.au/job-details/qu… We'd love to hear from you!
Menzies Research Prof Louise Maple-Brown Our Health in Our Hands ❤️💛🖤 Lowitja Institute Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Great study by LifeFlight - 👏 transparency regarding eg the circuit switch under green lights - important PHRM-specific environmental issues.
NB APOX only done in 12 patients, would love to see APOX/APOX+VAPOX side by side to see ?added benefit.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?

Sir Michael Marmot talks us through the Marmot Principles.

Team DFTB are at #rcpch24

Ana Waddington (She/Her)

It’s PEM Adventure time ⁦Irish Paediatric Emergency Medicine Association⁩

1st stop: C-spine rules

Bottom line: none are validated in children

Make sure you know how to position a patient properly for airway management- it’s the gift that keeps on giving

Registration now open for AfCEM2024 Botswana. Join us in Gabarone in November!!
AfCEM2024 #afcem2024

developingem.cmail20.com/t/t-e-ealtyk-p…

So, should you give probiotics to young children with gastroenteritis?

The data shows that it does NOT help reduce disease severity, disease duration, disease spread, missed days of school, and the need to see a healthcare provider.

🦠Wash your hands!

BREAKING NEWS 🚨
DFTB's first ebook - a series looking at minor injuries
Book 1- Foundations heading your way 14/12/23
Follow the link here to sign up for more info:
dftbdigital.com/minor-injuries…

NSW Department of Education and the University of Queensland found year 7 students who experienced explicit teaching – which involves step-by-step instructions and checking for students’ understanding – were four months ahead in their learning by year 9. Scaffold to success.

.PECARNteam

Post-it note take away #1

Low risk 🤕 - PECARN head injury algorithm to 👇 radiation

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19758692/

ACEP Members American Academy of Pediatrics AAFP ENA EMSC Innovation & Improvement Center Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd Joelle Donofrio-Ödmann Tim Horeczko 🇺🇦 💪 🇺🇸 Kristy Schwartz, MD, MPH Nathan Kuppermann Academic Life in EM