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Clinical, Residential Aged Care & Future Leaders



Future Leaders Communiqué Volume 7 Issue 3 July 2022
This edition focuses on safe transfer of care when dealing with critically ill patients.


Residential Aged Care Communiqué Episode #12: Positional asphyxia
Death of a resident from positional asphyxia. Highlights need for better internal emergency incident responses and deploying staff.


Future Leaders Communiqué Episode #9: Asplenia
This preventable death of a six-year-old child highlights lessons about the management of sepsis in an asplenic patient.


Clinical Communiqué Volume 9 Issue 2 June 2022
Pre-eminent leaders in health, law, and ethics reflect on the evolution of quality and patient safety in Australia and overseas.


Clinical Communiqué Episode #8: Fall Injuries in Older Adults
Podcast addresses the challenges in assessing older patients who had a fall to avoid delays in recognition and treatment of serious injury.


Residential Aged Care Communiqué Volume 17 Issue 2 May 2022
The death of a young male resident from asphyxia could have been prevented with a better internal emergency incident response.


Clinical Communiqué Episode #15: Older drivers
Thunderstorm asthma events can trigger severe asthma symptoms in susceptible individuals and potentially rapidly overwhelm health services.
The Communiqués


Residential Aged Care Communiqué Episode #19: Medication Allergy
A resident is administered medication to which he has a known allergy leading to death prompting a review of practice and systems of care.
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Residential Aged Care Communiqué Volume 20 Issue 1 February 2025
This edition examines how the workforce issues impact resident safety and quality of care through three separate cases.
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