![]() ![]() His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of , the RAGE podcast, the Resuscitology course, and the SMACC conference. He created the ‘Critically Ill Airway’ course and teaches on numerous courses around the world. He coordinates the Alfred ICU’s education and simulation programmes and runs the unit’s education website, INTENSIVE. He is actively involved in in using translational simulation to improve patient care and the design of processes and systems at Alfred Health. He has completed fellowship training in both intensive care medicine and emergency medicine, as well as post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professional education. ![]() He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives.Īfter finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia’s Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He is on the Board of Directors for the Intensive Care Foundation and is a First Part Examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is also a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is a co-founder of the Australia and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) and is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme. also used for prognostication in chronic liver disease and predicting complications of cirrhosisĬhris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne.Originally used for prognostication for surgery.composite of Total bilirubin, albumin, INR, ascites and hepatic encephalopathy.SCORING SYSTEMS FOR CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE SEVERITYĬhild-Pugh Score (see MDCALC: Child-Pugh) chronic liver failure with the development of encephalopathy.liver failure with encephalopathy developing over MELD score (MDcalc) Steroid Conversion (ANW residency). Hyponatremia is in general considered a predictor of early mortality, thus why, the addition of sodium to the MELD score, increases its accuracy in predicting 3-month. Fulminant or severe acute hepatic failure score (MDcalc) HAS-BLED score (MDcalc) HEART score for chest pain rule out (MDcalc). meld na meld na 0.025 × meld × (140 na) + 140 In cirrhosis, hyponatremia indicates solute-free water retention and is an indirect marker of portal hypertension.failure of hepatic synthetic and metabolic function. ![]()
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