Category Archives: FOAMEd

Human factors in aviation errors – The Dirty Dozen

Originally posted on Auckland HEMS:
Following a spate of aviation accidents in the 1980’s and 1990’s, Transport Canada and the aviation industry came up with the aviation ‘Dirty Dozen’ – human factors in aviation maintenance that commonly lead to errors. Consider these in the context of your prehospital or emergency service: . (thanks to Tim…

Prehospital amputation

Originally posted on Auckland HEMS:
Auckland HEMS has recently added a Gigli saw to the medical pack in case a patient requires prehospital amputation. Fortunately the team has not yet been required to perform this procedure. Anecdotally, prehospital amputations that have been performed by paramedic staffed EMS in the Auckland area in recent years have…

AmboFOAM Podcast: Post Cardiac Arrest Care.

Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
Many moons ago it was common practice that as soon as we had a pulse back from an arrested patient we would throw them in the ambulance and drive fast to hospital with little, if any, further management… This has changed and now there are a number of goals we try…

STORZ CMAC intubation for head GSW patient

This is from Dr Larry Mellick Youtube channel. I highlight this video to demonstrate a couple of things. 1. Good demonstration of CMAC VL in trauma patient with cervical spine precautions 2. Leaving cervical spine collar insitu during intubation attempt. Not my recommendation but you can see it is possible when using an indirect VLContinue reading “STORZ CMAC intubation for head GSW patient”