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Post Conference Letter, 11/12/08

November 14th, 2008 at 10:50 pm by Nick

Thanks to all who spoke this past Wednesday — Jim, Kit, Shawn, Shefali, Seth, Dr. Paul, Dr. Weingart, and Dr. Kalb.

Jim has graciously agreed to let me load his first “Screen Sim” program online — you can download the whole zipped folder onto your computer here (see me if you need help). I just tried it and am thrilled to have my own little window with Jim speaking to me about stroke. Hopefully more simulators are on the way.

Also, thanks to Chris Strother for pointing me to some screen-simulators hosted at trauma.org. They’re called Moulages, a word that’s amazingly appropriate.

If you enjoyed the debate on dobutamine in sepsis, between our own Dr. Weingart and the MICU’s Dr. Kalb, you can relive the magic by downloading the audio (mp3 format).

Alternatively, Shawn has transcribed the key points, below (and thrown in some of his own thoughts, at the end):

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