Based on our October 2016 issue of the Future Leaders Communiqué Volume(1) Issue(1) guest edited by Dr Nick Lonergan. This podcast hosted by medical student, Dalyia Abu-Ghazaleh (Griffith University), explores how unquestioning adherence to medical protocols could lead to patient harm.
Read the print edition for the detailed case report of the death of a patient that occurred in part, due to the strict adherence of local protocols and provides three expert commentaries about the benefits and potential dangers of medical protocols.
Time
00:00 Introduction Guest Editor Dalyia Abu-Ghazaleh
01:12 Case report
05:00 What is a medical protocol? Vox pop
06:05 Purpose of medical protocols
07:15 Origins of protocols: aviation industry
08:20 Protocols are not an absolute
09:30 Better use and questioning of protocols
10:26 Closing
Credits
Writer, narrator, producer, and director: Dalyia Abu-Ghazaleh
Editor: Mia Gvozdic
Producer: Dr Erica Musgrove
Executive Producers: Dr Nicola Cunningham, Prof Joseph Ibrahim, Dr Brendan Morrissey
