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. Anaerobes: Consider brain abscess, elderlyĬhris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne.H Influenzae: (3%) – Head trauma with CSF leak, otitis, sinusitis, anatomical defects such as dermal sinus tracts.Staphylococcus: Penetrating skull injury, ear or neuro operations.N meningitidis: (30%) – Children and adolescents.Pneumococcus: (40%) – Otitis media, head injury, pneumonia, immunocompromised.Lymphocytosis, variable protein elevation and normal glucose.Aseptic meningitis (Generally accepted as mainly viral meningitis).Sickle cell disease – Capsulated organisms. ![]()
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