May 15
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Would your guideline pass the Wakai test?

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During our research we asked several medical professionals to describe what good access to a guideline looks like.

“A locum doctor needs to be able to find the information they need in less than 40 seconds on a mobile phone at 4am”

Mr Abel Wakai, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Chair of the Academic Committee for the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine

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May 14
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How guideline availability can help save lives

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Here is a real life scenario that was described to me by an Emergency Medicine Consultant:

You are a doctor in training working the night shift in the Emergency Department. It is 4am and you’ve been working for 10 hours straight. There are 17 patients to see and your senior colleagues are busy with a multi victim road trauma in the resuscitation room where they are desperately trying to save the lives of a young mother and her son.

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