Category Archives: Prehospital medicine
Practice makes perfect by Dr Andrew Tagg
Safety and feasibility of prehospital extra corporeal life support implementation by non-surgeons for out-of-hospital refractory cardiac arrest
( image from Twitter, courtesy of Dr Brian Burns @HawkmoonHEMS)
Mal de Mer by Dr Andrew Tagg
RFDS STAR Program – Essential Aspects of Aeromedical Retrieval course
ESSENTIAL ASPECTS OF AEROMEDICAL RETRIEVAL COURSE DETAILS Course Dates 2013 > 26, 27, 28 August 2013 – COURSE FULL! Deakin Management Centre, Deakin University Geelong Campus, Victoria (prior to the ASA 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting being held 29-30 August) 22, 23, 24 November 2013 – Brisbane – PLACES FILLING! Venue: Queensland Combined Emergency Services Academy,Continue reading “RFDS STAR Program – Essential Aspects of Aeromedical Retrieval course”
Scoop and run vs stay and play – the latest research July 2013
Masterclass in Rural and Remote Medicine, Kangaroo Island November 2013
Folks, dont miss this one if you are in Australia or close ! Masterclass in Rural and Remote Medicine by Dr Tim Leeuwenburg and friends! Knowing Tim, it will feature heavily on practical training for those who need to provide emergency resuscitation and critical care to injured and ill a long way from anContinue reading “Masterclass in Rural and Remote Medicine, Kangaroo Island November 2013”
Welcome to the first ever AmboFOAM podcast
Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
Well, I’ve finally got motivated and got on to doing a podcast. This is for the new paramedic, volunteer or paramedic student just beginning their career. My thanks to my mate Tim from KI-docs for providing the inspiration and for showing me that podcasting doesn’t have to be that scary. Of…
Crimson Tide by Dr Andrew Tagg
Intubation by paramedics using the ILMA or AirTraq, KingVision, and Macintosh laryngoscopes in vehicle-entrapped patients: a manikin study
CASE #5 : SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY BABY
Originally posted on Rural Doctors Net:
I am putting this one up more to invite contributions from the community. It’s a case that has been included for our PRCC students – the guys who spend the entire third year of their four year graduate entry medical degree attached to a rural community (the so-called parallel…
Palliative Care Paramedics?
Originally posted on AmboFOAM:
I have had death on my mind a lot lately. In some ways this is not surprising, after all it is an inevitability in the career I have chosen that I will come across death in all it’s guises. However it is not the pointless deaths in car crashes, motorbike crashes,…
PODCAST #18 : Dr Ed Valentine on BASICS (UK)
Originally posted on Rural Doctors Net:
Dr Ed Valentine is a dual-trained EM & ICU doc in the Old Dart, currently spending a year as a retrieval Fellow with London HEMS and responding as a BASICS volunteer in his home county of Wiltshire, UK We talk about the role of BASICS in the UK to…

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