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Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks and Vascular Access Workshop

Great Melbourne workshop in ultrasound guided nerve blocks and vascular access. You will be doing more of this in the prehospital and retrieval setting, if not ALREADY! WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Resuscitation Flash teams on the end of the phone

Fly-in, fly-out: A viable option to address the chronic shortage of remote doctors

Rural Medicine Australia 2013 Conference Presentation by Professor Steve Margolis

So you want to work in a Flying ER?

Rural Team Entry for SimWARS SMACC GOLD by Dr Tim Leeuwenburg

So you want to be an Outback Retrieval Doctor?

Edible cricothyrotomy model by Dr Bryant

EDIBLE CRICOTHYROTOMY MODEL from Rob Bryant on Vimeo.

Seconds from disaster – avoiding the airway clean kill

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 210,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 9 days for that many people to seeContinue reading “2013 in review”

Thoughts and prayers with PHARM colleagues in Norway

Comparison of Success Rates between Two Video Laryngoscope Systems Used in a Prehospital Clinical Trial

Patient safety in helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS): The safety management system

Originally posted on Auckland HEMS:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. Albert Einstein. You could be right in thinking that “safety crusaders” are the glass half empty type, right? Those that believe “what can go wrong, will go wrong” (Murphys Law). I’m not a pessimist, but I do believe…

A Military Aviation model for Patient Safety?

Originally posted on Auckland HEMS:
In the September 2013 edition of the British Medical Journal, Robyn Clay-Williams has published a thought provoking article on the modelling of clinical risk management on civil aviation practices, and questions whether a military aviation model may be more prudent when assessing and managing risk in the healthcare environment. The…

Canadian Air Ambulance – a 2014 overview

Prehospital RSI in the UK

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
I’m currently away in Japan getting some skiing in, so I’m not up to much I terms of posting. However, whilst waiting for my wife to return from a shopping rampage in Tokyo, I did catch this post over at the brilliant ScanCrit site about HEMS use of RSI in East…