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Future Leaders Communiqué Episode #9: Asplenia

This preventable death of a six-year-old child highlights lessons about the management of sepsis in an asplenic patient.

Pre-eminent leaders in health, law, and ethics reflect on the evolution of quality and patient safety in Australia and overseas.

Podcast addresses the challenges in assessing older patients who had a fall to avoid delays in recognition and treatment of serious injury.

The death of a young male resident from asphyxia could have been prevented with a better internal emergency incident response.

The death of a six-year-old child could have been prevented with timely recognition and management of sepsis in an asplenic patient.

Learn from these two cases and the expert commentaries explaining how to prevent falls.

This podcast presents two cases highlighting the poorer outcomes that can occur for older persons following trauma.

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In this episode, we review a coroner’s investigation into the unexpected death in hospital of a complex major trauma patient.

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In this episode we feature two surgical cases that each portray several clinical themes, but at the heart of both is the theme of communication.

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