TIRBO #31: Giving better lectures

Some basic tactics for keeping attention in your live talks, presentations, and lectures.

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TIRBO #30: Experience is lying to you

When the lessons of memory, clinical experience, and time may be more deceptive than instructive.

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TIRBO #29: Understanding blood transfusion

A review of the basics of blood donation, storage, typing, screening, matching, and transfusion.

Transfusion medicine series at Critical Concepts

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TIRBO #28: How I set PEEP

A review of the methods of PEEP setting, including stress index, PV loops, esophageal manometry, and PEEP tables, and finally my preferred method of driving pressure trials.

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TIRBO #27: The halo effect

An important cognitive bias in medicine, and how the COVID pandemic has shown us that generalizing the assumption of competence is a treacherous pitfall.

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TIRBO #26: RadioPEEP discordance

On today’s TIRBO: A sinister pitfall that may lead you to injuring lungs and worsening outcomes.

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TIRBO #24: Two things people need to hear

On today’s TIRBO, a couple things worth saying when a patient is struck down with unexpected critical illness: it’s going to take time, and it wasn’t anyone’s fault.

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TIRBO #23: Cultivating clinical calm

Much is made of “staying cool” during emergencies, but what does this really mean? What is calm, what role does it play in a clinical environment, when is it appropriate, and how do we learn it? This and more on today’s TIRBO.

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TIRBO #22: Understanding “weak” trainees

You have a trainee, orientee, intern/resident/fellow, student, or other learner who just seems slower than the rest. What should that mean to you? A perspective on this week’s TIRBO.