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?
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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
Mastering the emergency airway with a true master !
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/
Ultrasound on the Frontlines: Empowering Paramedics with Lung Ultrasound for Dyspnea Diagnosis in Adults—A Pilot Study – PMC
Lung transthoracic ultrasound (LUS) is an accessible and widely applicable method of rapidly imaging certain pathologies in the thorax. LUS proves to be an optimal tool in respiratory emergency medicine, applicable in various clinical settings. … — Read on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10670426/
A Ten-Year Retrospective Cohort Study on Neck Collar Immobilization in Trauma Patients with Head and Neck Injuries – PMC
Background and Objectives: In the context of prehospital care, spinal immobilization is commonly employed to maintain cervical stability in head and neck injury patients. However, its use in cases of unclear consciousness or major trauma patients is … — Read on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10673496/
Does a prehospital applied pelvic binder improve patient survival? – Injury
Does a prehospital applied pelvic binder improve patient survival? – Injury — Read on http://www.injuryjournal.com/article/S0020-1383(24)00079-2/fulltext
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