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#badEM16 – The eyes don’t see what the mind doesn’t know – Dr Kamil Vallabh

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Dr Kamil Vallabh is an Emergency Medicine Physician working at Mitchells Plain Hospital in the Western Cape. Kamil co-runs the facebook pages Plain EM and EMECG, and we would highly recommend checking these great resources out.   This talk takes us on a walk though of a case – including ECGs, chest X-ray and ultrasound – and focuses…

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#badEM16: Almero Oosthuizen on Paraquat poisoning

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Almero Oosthuizen treated the badEM16 crowd to an entertaining talk some common and some deadly poisonings other than organophosphates. Take away points: First aid first: remove contaminants from patient and protect yourself Aggressive palliative care may be the only option for some patients: learn how to do it well. Almero Oosthuizen is an Emergency Medicine…

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#badEM16 – Julian Fleming – Emergency Medicine: You’re Doing It Wrong

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Emergency Medicine: You’re Doing It Wrong Julian (@EMedic6) Brings you down to reality…. REMEMBER we are in AFRICA Can we expect the lay-person to understand what a true emergency is? If your child has a fever, it is an emergency, maybe not to the healthcare practitioner, but to that child’s mom this is the biggest…

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#badEM16: Charmaine Cunningham – The gamble: do I pay or do I stay

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Selling assets in order to pay for care so that your child has a chance of survival should not be a decision that a parent is required to make, and yet often it is…. I’m Charmaine and I’m passionate about access to care.  For #badEM16 I combined some of my interests, including the system, how…

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#badEM16: Sian Geraty – Too wild, too free, too accustomed to death

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I’m Sian and I’m an Emergency Medicine registrar in Cape Town, South Africa.  I consider myself the luckiest girl in the world to get to do what I love in our incredible country. Here we have the most diverse patients, the craziest stories, the widest range of pathologies, and more opportunities that you can imagine.…

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#badEM16 free Emergency Medicine Symposium

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http://www.badem.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Time-Lapse.mp4 Keep scrolling down for links to all the talks! Did you attend badEM16? Download your CPD certificate HERE  Too wild, too free, too accustomed to death Dr Sian Geraty Sian is an Emergency Medicine registrar in Cape Town, South Africa and shares some heart warming and heart breaking stories from her elective at Muhimbili National…

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#badEM16: Ross Hofmeyr – My best and biggest blunders

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“Let your mistakes haunt you and they will destroy you. Let your mistakes teach you and they will grow you” – Ross Hofmeyr Dr Ross Hofmeyr talks about making mistakes and how we deal with them through telling the stories of his best and biggest blunders. Because the only clinicians who do not make mistakes…

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