May 2017 – Page 3 – Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds

Improving patient safety with Dr Tim Cook

Hear @doctimcook's ARIES talk on improving patient safety through learning from #anaesthesia complications: https://t.co/UHZ6tgaX8T #RCoA25 pic.twitter.com/XonlSoqn8Y — RC of Anaesthetists (@RCoANews) May 8, 2017

RFDS Flight nurses are qualified midwives

#Midwives of the skies: Birthing babies in the air @rfdsnews https://t.co/hL0IjhFa1l via @ABCNews — Konrad Kangru (@WhitGP) May 7, 2017

Vortex Airway Approach trolleys roll out!

New @VortexApproach emergency airway trolley goes live at Monash Children's Hospital. pic.twitter.com/xitQ9jU94b — Monash Anaesthesia (@MonashAnaes) May 2, 2017

Motov’s cocktails!

Huge thanks to @nickgenes and @epmonthly for collaborating on Motov’s Cocktails-Sub-Dissociative Ketamine. https://t.co/UN0zGkVOXU #FOAMed — Sergey Motov (@painfreeED) May 4, 2017

Tourniquets are back

Largely due evidence from increased military use in conflicts in the last two decades, tourniquet use has re-emerged as an effective way to control haemorrhage from limb injury, usually due to partial or complete amputation or severe crush injury (so called “mangled limbs”) or severe penetrating trauma with major tissue or vascular disruption. Based onContinue reading “Tourniquets are back”

Open Access Central Line Procedural review!

New Central Line Procedural Page! https://t.co/X9cXLyK9LW Thx #FOAMed for the link suggestions! @ketaminh @matt_colo @ercowboy pic.twitter.com/qfUQDLJrqJ — UC EM Residency (@TamingtheSRU) May 2, 2017

Open Access Cricothyroidotomy review!

@Anaes_Journal @NicholasChrimes @ketaminh @Wilkinsonjonny Nice cric review by ENT:Fagan's FOAM textbook https://t.co/ctnsn1ZxYl #sizematters — Ross Hofmeyr (@rosshofmeyr) May 2, 2017

What size tube would you use for CICO?

Join us today at 1200 BST to discuss emergency cricothyroidotomy with @NicholasChrimes @dasairway @dr_imranahmad @rosshofmeyr @ketaminh! pic.twitter.com/HzCVmUuHWP — Anaesthesia (@Anaes_Journal) May 2, 2017

Open Access Anaesthesia Handbook!

The @ICRC publishes its Anaesthesia Handbook. Kudos to the ICRC-WFSA Liaison Group and download your copy here https://t.co/u4C5U3jfpj pic.twitter.com/oGnp9Z1o0y — WFSA (@wfsaorg) May 2, 2017

You can never have enough SALAD!

VIDEO: Simulating Emergent Copious Solid Food Regurgitation, Starring Dr. #DuCanto https://t.co/zBdgQlxOhl #AuroraSt.Luke's — Anesthesiology News (@anesthesianews) May 1, 2017

A dream come true -Dr John Hinds’ legacy

Air Ambulance finally touches down in Enniskillen – The Fermanagh Herald https://t.co/JCldNt4vOA — Air Medical Today (@AirMedToday) April 30, 2017

Simple airway management

This is a popular series and it’s not hard to see why. Greg Brown drops back in to talk about the airway device that is now his go to item. I clearly remember a time when the escalation of airway management in prehospital care resembled the fabled Underpants Gnomes from South Park and their threeContinue reading “Simple airway management”