How To Debug A Human: An Engineer’s Guide To Emergency Medicine (emf2026)

What does designing software have in common with keeping people alive? More than you might think, probably. Decomposing software problems might take different knowledge than turning syndromes into diagnoses, but if you’ve got the skills to do one, you’re well on your way to the other. Join a computer scientist turned ambulance crew, awaiting results on their Masters in Paramedic Science, to learn how to take a software engineering approach to saving a life – from the roadside all the way to the bedside in A&E. No prior knowledge required: you won’t get a qualification, or medical advice, but you will learn what a primary survey has to do with requirements-gathering, how to put a breakpoint in a patient’s heart without opening them up, and how screwing in a lightbulb can tell you what part of someone’s brain is broken. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/77-how-to-debug-a-human