The modules are written by experts after national consultation with ICUs across the country. They can be accessed through your local eLearning platform.

The national EPICCNZ - eLearning Programme Induction to Critical Care - has just launched. These 10 modules are for staff working in adult critical care in NZ. They were developed as part of the national Critical Care expansion funding.
More info here: youtube.com/watch?v=05S77z…

This June.

Tribeca
Elizabeth Banks ❄️ Imogen Pelham Te Herenga Waka University Press Counterpoint Press

A MISTAKE premieres in New York City.

“'The anti-vax group has grown a lot in New Zealand, and I think it's been driven by really appalling misinformation.'
The problem with a successful public health strategy was 'nothing happens'.
'No-one sees those lives saved, the 20,000 NZ who didn't die because of vaccination”

Hallelujah. ICU occupancy as a standalone datapoint is so subjective it is rendered meaningless. A bed is a piece of furniture and unable to provide any form of care, intensive or otherwise.

Come down and work with us in Christchurch, NZ – starting in March 2024.

Positions at the Fellow level, ideal for recently certified specialists looking for mentoring and support in their professional development:
cdhb.careercentre.net.nz/Job/Emergency-…

Anyone have the time to explain isomers to him?

A compelling argument. Dead birds don’t let you down. Vote Kōkako.

A protest piece. I am proud to be a part of the Rational Evaluation of Nomenclature and Agreement based on Logic (RENAL) Group.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Failed infrastructure story of the week

Immense respect for the Waikato paramedic who endured this, then got out & hiked to the patient they were supposed to be rescuing. All escaped intact. amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

Everyone! Calm down! The neural chips that ended up killing the recipients were put into the brains of TERMINALLY ILL monkeys! So all the monkeys that the neural chips killed were gonna die anyway! See? Totally normal stuff.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, SUPPORT THE NECK

Steve, the 'F' key fell off our ward laptop when I was an ST1, and it was still missing when I returned as an ST5, please tell me this is the new tech we're talking about

Welcome bots! Twitter notified me this morning that I had over 20k new followers. None of these are real people. It’s going to be hard to block all of you but I’ll give it a go.

The RRT handbook has been downloaded more than 73,000 times. Feel free to share.
Managing deteriorating patients
rrthandbook.org

Int SRRS CICM ANZICS SCCM Alex Psirides Chris Nickson Rinaldo Bellomo anzicrc Critical Care Medicine Critical Care & Resuscitation Journal Critical Care at UniMelb

The people have spoken. And they say stop measuring stuff that compels you to make the resultant number normal.

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