Sadly, the final SMACC conference danced its last moves on Friday. It was an amazing week with lots of learning, inspiration and camaraderie. After the last SMACC in Berlin Justin and I resolved to try and create the best journal club ever at the final SMACC in Sydney…. and I reckon we have done it! […]
Probing Paediatric Pneumonia with Dr O’Brien and Lissaman
March 13, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Drs Adam O’Brien and Claire Lissaman are the authors of a new study looking at the diagnostic characteristics of lung US for Paediatric pneumonia. The study was entitled: Lissaman et al Prospective observational study of point-of-care ultrasound for diagnosing pneumonia in Archives of Diseases in Childhood July 2018 [full text PDF] In this interview we talk about the study and how […]
Time to Pause, Reflect & Pay It Forward
March 12, 2017 By 1 Comment
Gday So it has been a month since my last post, which I think is a Broomedocs record! I decided to take a litle time to pause and reflect, do a bit of reading and work on a few of my other projects. Don’t worry – all the clinical stuff will return soon. Justin and […]
Clinical Case 133: POCUS Perils [and the Debiasing Dance]
August 23, 2016 By 2 Comments
I am a mad point-of-care ultrasound [POCUS] fan. I scan pretty much every patient that I can. I do this to sharpen my diagnostic skills, practice and to explore new utilities of the humble ultrasound. However, as my POCUS practice has matured and I have made countless errors; I am learning very slowly to do […]
Pneumonia Ultrasound Diagnostic Strategy
March 30, 2016 By 3 Comments
In June I will be travelling to the Emerald Isle to attend and learn at the SMACC Conference in Dublin. One of my jobs whilst I am there is to help out on the SMACC Mini workshop – I will be talking about using lung US to diagnose paediatric pneumonia. Clearly, I am a self-confessed […]
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