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Dr Don Bowley – A Flying Doctor legend hangs up his wings after 3 decades of dedicated service to Outback

Today marks the end of a 3 decade long aeromedical career for Dr Don Bowley , my mentor in Royal Flying Doctor Service . He finally retires after a long distinguished career providing prehospital & retrieval medicine as well as remote GP service to the folks of Outback Queensland . It was an honour servingContinue reading “Dr Don Bowley – A Flying Doctor legend hangs up his wings after 3 decades of dedicated service to Outback”

Extreme medicine: What it’s like being a medic in the world’s most dangerous places

Extreme medicine: What it’s like being a medic in the world’s most dangerous places — Read on http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/inspire/life/what-its-like-being-a-medic-in-the-worlds-most-extreme-places

Prehospital Release of Patients After Treatment in an Anesthesiologist-Staffed Mobile Emergency Care Unit

Prehospital Release of Patients After Treatment in an Anesthesiologist-Staffed Mobile Emergency Care Unit — Read on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9301518/

Association of Prehospital Plasma Transfusion With Survival in Trauma Patients With Hemorrhagic Shock When Transport Times Are Longer Than 20 Minutes

Association of Prehospital Plasma Transfusion With Survival in Trauma Patients With Hemorrhagic Shock When Transport Times Are Longer Than 20 Minutes — Read on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6990948/

Prehospital ultrasound-guided nerve blocks improve reduction-feasibility of dislocated extremity injuries compared to systemic analgesia. A randomized controlled trial | PLOS ONE

Prehospital ultrasound-guided nerve blocks improve reduction-feasibility of dislocated extremity injuries compared to systemic analgesia. A randomized controlled trial | PLOS ONE — Read on journals.plos.org/plosone/article

Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Conference Review 2022: Stoke the Fire

Brynton Ashton / Paramedic / Australia Liv Grover-Johnson / Critical Care Doctor / Australia Passionate about medicine in the wildest corners of this… Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Conference Review 2022: Stoke the Fire

Pre-hospital tracheal intubation in severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Pre-hospital tracheal intubation in severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis – British Journal of Anaesthesia — Read on http://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(22)00428-7/fulltext

Resuscitation with blood products in patients with trauma-related haemorrhagic shock receiving prehospital care (RePHILL): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial – The Lancet Haematology

Resuscitation with blood products in patients with trauma-related haemorrhagic shock receiving prehospital care (RePHILL): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial – The Lancet Haematology — Read on http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(22)00040-0/fulltext

Prehospital Plasma during Air Medical Transport in Trauma Patients at Risk for Hemorrhagic Shock | NEJM

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Prehospital Plasma during Air Medical Transport in Trauma Patients at Risk for Hemorrhagic Shock — Read on http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1802345

Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said “Nothing too exciting.”

This case was provided by Spencer Schwartz, an outstanding paramedic at Hennepin EMS who is on Hennepin EMS’s specialized “P3” team, a team that … Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said “Nothing too exciting.”