The Case of the Dying Soldiers: Practical Applications of Pharmacology in Critical Care

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are very important when it comes to treating critically ill or critically injured patients. However, when we teach this topic we usually present things using complex equations and explanations that make information difficult to recall in stressful situation.

all in your mind: how mental models and mental practice can improve resuscitation performance

Uploaded by Michael Lauria on 2017-08-04.

Cognition and decision making under stress

from Resus in the Park 2017, Sydney, AUS

Strategies for improving decision making capability in high-stress environments.

Equanimity, Puni, and Parachuting: Learning Psychological Skills to Improve Performance In Resuscitation

Uploaded by East Coast Helicopter Operations on 2016-08-16.

Rethinking CRM: maximal simultaneous activity with minimal bandwidth

This lecture was given at the SMACC Force workshop as part of the Social Medial and Critical Care Conference in Chicago. As different organizations in healthcare have adopted aspects of CRM from the world of commercial aviation, the essence of what CRM is really about has been diluted.

This was a lecture presented at the Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference on April 22, 2015. "Brain Friendly" teaching is a way of presenting idea, teaching, and training that is optimized and aligned with our natural cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms. This video explores some of my ideas about how we can improve the way teach and train the amazing people that provide prehospital emergency medical care.

Resuscitation of critically ill or injured patients both inside and outside of the hospital can be chaotic. These situation presents present both technical and cognitive challenges that need to be overcome. This talk discusses how I think we can walk the path through chaos, how we can achieve a state of "flow" by using several tools to moderate our level of arousal, decrease perceived challenges, and maintain cognitive endurance.

How do be make better decisions? This lecture discusses some ideas on how we can improve our clinical decision making in emergency medicine, critical care, and air medical transport.

Do certain aspects of military training, including stress inoculation and developing mental toughness have a place in emergency medicine, critical care, and the world of resuscitation? Some people have suggest that incorporating "militaristic" practices could be detrimental. I agree.

This interview with Dr. John Greenwood is on resilience and grit. Grit, according to John, can essentially be considered the capability to continue to work strenuously toward a particular goal or interested despite innumerable challenges, adversity, plateaus in progress, and even failures.