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Acute behavioural disturbances: olanzapine or haloperidol?

St.Emlyn’s – Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This is the sixth in a series of blog posts on new research in emergency toxicology. The last post was about … Acute behavioural disturbances: olanzapine or haloperidol?

JC: Pre Hospital Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – data from 21 years at London’s Air Ambulance

St.Emlyn’s – Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Review the publication from London’s Air Ambulance of their fascinating data on the survivability from … JC: Pre Hospital Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – data from 21 years at London’s Air Ambulance

The challenges of remote mental health care in Far North Australia

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JC: Do physician led prehospital teams improve outcomes?

St.Emlyn’s – Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This article explores the impact of physician-led interprofessional pre-hospital teams on survival and … JC: Do physician led prehospital teams improve outcomes?

Shhhhhhh…

I never thought that I would come out of blogging retirement. Didn’t have anything else to say. But a rant has been brewing for a long time now, … Shhhhhhh…

Difficult Airway Society Meeting 2024

St.Emlyn’s – Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Explore key takeaways from the DAS 2024 meeting, including airway management in obstetrics, ethics of … Difficult Airway Society Meeting 2024

Italian guidelines on critical care in austere environments

Changing to soft neck collars in Melbourne prehospital trauma care

Protection of the cervical spine is recommended following multisystem injury. In 2021, Ambulance Victoria changed clinical practice guidelines to apply soft collars instead of semi‐rigid collars for suspected cervical spine injury. The aim of this … — Read on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11255016/

Prehospital ECPR in metropolitan Australia

Survival from refractory out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) without timely return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) utilising conventional advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) therapies is dismal. CHEER3 was a safety and feasibility study of pre-hospital deployed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for refractory OHCA in metropolitan Australia. This was a single jurisdiction,Continue reading “Prehospital ECPR in metropolitan Australia”

UAVs and prehospital care

The potential emerging role of UAVs in prehospital care

Paediatric emergency front of neck access

Airway anatomy

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Front of neck access in Melbourne

Prehospital anesthesia in postcardiac arrest patients: a multicenter retrospective cohort study – PMC

Currently, the data regarding the impact of prehospital postcardiac arrest anesthesia on target hemodynamic and ventilatory parameters of early postresuscitation care and recommendations on its implementation are rare. The present study examines the … — Read on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11067130/