Newsletters
December 2008
Spring 2008
Maori cultural competence DVDs
November 2008
Providers can order copies of this DVD and Guidelines (which
are packaged together) through the ACC website, www.acc.co.nz under the
“Resources” link in the “For Providers” section, or by
calling the provider helpline 0800 222 070. The reference for
the resource is ACC1625.
Workforce discussion papers
October 2008 - MoH discussion
papers on the medical workforce and funding.
HDC Naming Policy
July 27th 2008
Consultation
review; Naming
Policy
ACC recognised funders - call for submissions
July 8th 2008
http://www.acc.co.nz/for-providers/previous-news/PRD_CTRB091090
After-hours working party report - MoH
Report and
recommendations.
AMPA triage guidelines
AMPA has developed draft
triage guidelines designed for community use. Comments please to
Rob Kofoed.
JAMPA - Journal of Accident and Medical Practice
October 21st 2003
AMPA is developing a medical journal which will include articles,
letters to the editor, A&M Practice tips, and other Accident and
Medical matters. Trevor Speight, a medical editor with more
than 28 years experience has been engaged to assist with this
publication.
We would appreciate your input.
All articles, and suggestions should be sent to Brenda Evitt at brenda@ampa.co.nz or
Accident and Medical Practitioners Association, 202 Ponsonby Road,
Ponsonby Auckland, and include, your name and all contact details
HDC opinions
The following cases involve Accident and Medical practice or
facilities.
One CME point is available per case studied. The following
summary should be kept for audit purposes:
- the
case number e.g. Case
01HDC02515
- the
clinical problem e.g. abdominal pain
- the
date of the HDC report e.g. 30
April 2003
- points
relevant to pre-hospital care learned from review of the case
e.g. being wary of treating undiagnosed abdominal pain out of
context of history and clinical findings, value of repeated
abdominal examination, being wary of treating undiagnosed
abdominal pain with narcotics.
November 2009 -
Busy junior medical registrar misses acute IHD in the ED; defective
hospital systems
November
2008 - another missed subarachnoid haemorrhage.
February 2008 - Acute
sensorineural hearing loss in the presence of earwax - beware the
dual pathology.
August
2007 - MI following adrenaline for presumed anaphylaxis
April 2007 - malignant lymphoma
presenting as a sore throat
November 2006 -
ruptured tubo-ovarian abscess; triage
October 2006 - chest pain and MI in a
31 year old man; onset after drinking 4l of beer
November
2005 - chest pain and referral to rule out PE
October
2005 - Possible misdiagnosis of spider bite
June
2005 - Lack of examination and investigation of urinary and
abdominal symptoms; inadequate record-keeping.
June
2005 - Delayed diagnosis of testicular torsion.
March
2005 - Rash erroneously attributed to codeine reaction when patient
suffering from meningococcal disease.
August
2004 - meningococcal septicaemia in a child
May
2004 - Management of compression fracture of vertebra caused by dive
into pool.
May
2004 - Emergency Department treatment of patient re-presenting with
headache and subsequently diagnosed with subarachnoid haemorrhage.
May
2004 - Management of thigh injury that progressed to osteomyelitis;
communication issues when patient had limited English.
May
2004 - meningococcal disease
May
2004 - missed cervical spine fracture with apparent shoulder injury
February
2004 - missed cervical spine fracture
September
2003 - missed MI
September
2003 - testicular torsion
April
2003 - Abdominal pain
March
2003 - deep venous thrombosis
January
2003 - subarachnoid haemorrhage
October
2002 - Angulated wrist fracture
September
2002 - Glass F/B in shin laceration
August
2002 - Ulcerative colitis
May
2002 - Missed ectopic pregnancy
April
2001 - Shoulder fracture in a child
February
2001 - Extradural haematoma; systems failure
May
2000 - Meningococcal disease
September
1998 - Diagnosis of spinal fracture
June
1998 - Lower limb fractures in a child
January
1998 - Fracture distal ulna
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