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Underwater leg amputation with ketamine saves man’s life

When a white-water rafter fell into the Franklin River, it triggered an extraordinary rescue mission that pushed everyone to the brink. — Read on http://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/franklin-river-rescue-man-stuck-lithuanian-valdas-leg-amputated/105420916

Prehospital Cricothyrotomy: A Narrative Review of Technical, Educational, and Operational Considerations for Procedure Optimization – Journal of Emergency Medicine

Prehospital Cricothyrotomy: A Narrative Review of Technical, Educational, and Operational Considerations for Procedure Optimization – Journal of Emergency Medicine — Read on http://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(24)00284-1/fulltext

Doctors warnings ignored

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Prehospital blood , TXA or scoop and run? The latest evidence discussed in 2025

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Prehospital tranexamic acid is associated with a survival benefit without an increase in complications: Results of two harmonized randomized clinical trials – PMC

A secondary analysis was performed using harmonized data from two large, double-blinded, randomized prehospital TXA trials. Prehospital TXA is safe and independently associated with a dose-dependent lower 28-day mortality risk and lower 24-hour red … — Read on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11422517/

Intravenous Ketamine to Facilitate Transport of Agitated Patients to the ECT Clinic – PMC

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be effective for a variety of psychiatric conditions, including for some patients who are very psychotic or agitated. Transferring such patients from the psychiatric ward to the ECT clinic can pose significant … — Read on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12105946/

Our Medicine

http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/our-medicine Episode 2 at 20min mark shows a psychiatric aeromedical retrieval from RFDS Cairns team with use of ketamine infusion for sedation . The patient is unintubated and responsive to voice but clearly calm and not agitated . As far as I know this is the first ever recorded televised footage of such a procedureContinue reading “Our Medicine”

LUCAS Mechanical CPR Machine – application essentials in 1 minute

LUCAS Mechanical CPR – Published Paper on Training from our Team – CLICK HERE LUCAS Mechanical CPR Machine – application essentials in 1 minute

Where Medicine Meets the Mountain

Medical student Kacylia Roy Proulx takes on Mount Kilimanjaro, as both a personal endeavour, and an opportunity to see physiology & mountain medicine… Where Medicine Meets the Mountain

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

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