Urticaria causes patients to present to Urgent Care Clinics. We hear from Dr Amanda Oakley, Consultant Dermatologist, an Adjunct Associate Professor at Auckland University and the Founder of Dermnet NZ about how it should be managed.
Moonboots are not benign devices and should be prescribed with the same thought and consideration as you would a medication.
Recorded for the recent inaugural Urgent Care Boot Camp, these 2 bites run back to back and look at injuries associated with being at a Boot Camp (the Military sort, not the Medical sort!)
Join us for the Cruis-ED Emergency Medicine Event of the Year.
As the landscape to healthcare continues to evolve so does the Emergency Medicine Conference. Emergency medicine involves the saving of lives. This however comes at a cost, the burden at times affecting a health worker’s ability to offer quality care to their patients. The 2020 Emergency Medicine Cruise Conference is designed for all physicians, paramedics and nurses involved in , front line, Acute and Trauma care. Limited spaces available for students.
AMRF-funded researchers from The University of Auckland will discuss the latest advances in heart health and how their current and future research can help ensure our good cardiovascular health. Topics will include:
· Atrial fibrillation
· High blood pressure
· Stroke
This is a guided 6 minute Mindfulness breathing exercise for you to see if mindfulness is for you. If you find it helpful, this will be available for repeat listens whenever you need it.
This is a guided 6 minute Mindfulness breathing exercise for you to see if mindfulness is for you. If you find it helpful, this will be available for repeat listens whenever you need it.
Could simple mindfulness techniques help you clear you mind at the end of a busy and stressful shift?
Burnout and Mental Health problems can affect clinicians in all specialities and of all grades. For too long it has been swept under the carpet for the mistaken belief that it is a sign of weakness and poor character. But of late people have started to speak up on the topic. For a profession that exists to care for people, failure to care for ourselves results in poorer patient outcomes and is the reason we have such a high suicide rate within medicine.
When you work in Urgent Care you will always be relieved when the Ambulance service takes our sickest patients to hospital. But do you truly understand what the EMTs, Paramedics and ICPs do day in and day out, what their training and scope of practice is and do you appreciate how hard it is to make clinical decisions out in the field. To get a better idea we talk with Intensive Care Paramedic and Programme Lead of Paramedicine at AUT in Auckland, Luke Summers.