Enquire + Educate + Evaluate

Jesse Spurr

As part of a new section on Injectable Orange, I am gradually adding a number of my past presentations to the site. Feel free to adapt, use, chop to bits and sticky-tape back together. All part of a philosophy of not wasting time on duplication. This is a very basic […]

Basic Cardiovascular A&P – Presentation

This entry was posted in Presentations and tagged Cardiac heart powerpoint on October 12, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Slides from presentation/discussion for a great group of Nurses at the Pulmonary Workshop. The patient cases contained in the presentation are a fictional composite of multiple presentations – not based on any real person. There will be slide notes and more resources to follow, when I get some time (i.e. […]

Desaturation – Presentation

This entry was posted in Presentations on August 16, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

This week I had my mind blown. Insights into the world of Trauma, Mass Casualty, Disaster Response and Military Medicine, opened up a whole new world at the Trauma and Disaster Management event hosted at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and supported by Laerdal Medical. Highlights Dr David Cooksley […]

Casualties of War

This entry was posted in FOAM on July 9, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Donkey analogies aside, with the growing uptake of immersive team simulation, there is certainly a risk of falling into the softly-softly debrief trap. Thanks for sharing this video Luke Wainwright (@lukie27). Although slightly tongue in cheek (only slightly), it elucidates some of the things that have sat uneasily with me when […]

Debriefing: a Little Carrot, a Little Stick

This entry was posted in Simulation and tagged #FOAMed debriefing good judgement simulation on July 6, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

I love Twitter and I love #FOAMed. I get to be a fly on the wall observing passionate and qualified debates on interesting and arguably controversial topics. In a refreshing divergence from the cricoid pressure debate, the Minh Le Cong (PHARM) and Nic Chrimes (VORTEX) public airway philosophical discussion rolled […]

Running Before Learning to Tie Shoelaces

This entry was posted in FOAM and tagged #FOAMed airway Competency. on June 21, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Ever read a dogmatic news headline and had that niggling discomfort with the ‘science’ that passes for newsworthy ‘evidence’? OK, yes, me too. How about read an abstract in an area of interest and quoted the conclusions with conviction later to earn conversational credibility? Be honest, we’ve all done it. […]

Battling Bad Science

This entry was posted in Evidence-Based Practice FOAM and tagged #dogmalysis #FOAMed on May 19, 2013 by Jesse Spurr