About Nick Nick Adkins is a healthcare executive and serial healthcare entrepreneur from Nashville, Tennessee. He is the creator of the exponentially growing #pinksocks movement. #pinksocks is a global community trying to the positively affect the world, largely through a variety of missions within healthcare and #digitalhealth. Nick used to wear a suit and tie to […]
Simulation Training in Virtual Reality
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how new technology will affect my life as an ED doctor. It’s 2018, and the un-ignorable hype surrounding #MedTech is reaching fever pitch. In my opinion, the big players are machine learning, telemedicine, and virtual reality (VR). Their impact promises to be unprecedented across the spectrum of medical environments, […]
Procedural Distraction in the Paediatric ED: Time for Virtual Reality? (info/references from talk at CSG meeting)
During my six months working in the paediatric emergency department, I’ve noticed that the vast majority of young children are petrified of needles. A huge amount is at stake when a child requires an intravenous cannula. If the procedure is unsuccessful: It increases the time prior to administration of treatment (like IV antibiotics). It means subjecting […]
PonderMed #2: Professor Tony Young, NHS innovator-in-chief
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PonderMed #1: Keith Grimes “The VR Doctor”
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How Theme Park, Space Invaders and Go have paved the way for exponential healthcare
I often imagine my retired self looking back at this point in my career, marvelling at how primitive it all was. By that stage, hospital fax machines, handwritten patient notes, stethoscopes, ‘bleeps’ and other relics of a time-gone-by will be collecting dust in the Ancient Medical History Museum. I’ll be a regular visitor at the […]
The Ugly Side of Exercise #RSMFrontline
Last week I attended ‘Frontline resuscitation’, a one-day conference hosted on by the Military Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (#RSMFrontline). Its aim was to ‘showcase cutting edge developments in resuscitation medicine and provide understanding of how these can be translated to military medicine’. I was one several civilian attendees keen to benefit from some […]