Category Archives: Rural medicine

The use of transcranial ultrasound and clinical assessment to diagnose ischaemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion in remote and rural areas

The use of transcranial ultrasound and clinical assessment to diagnose ischaemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion in remote and rural areas — Read on journals.plos.org/plosone/article

Three-drug tourniquet a game-changer for rural medicine | InSight+

ALM’s capacity to increase survival rates in hostile environments is a potential game changer for trauma patients in remote and rural Australia, writes Hayley Letson — Read on insightplus.mja.com.au/2022/7/three-drug-tourniquet-a-game-changer-for-rural-medicine/

Life support: Island doctors go the distance to save lives in rural B.C. – Victoria Times Colonist

Victoria specialists guide rural doctors through life-saving procedures from afar. — Read on http://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/life-support-doctors-go-the-distance-to-save-lives-4781369

RRH: Rural and Remote Health article: 6115 – A year as a prehospital physician in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

RRH: Rural and Remote Health. Published article number: 6115 – A year as a prehospital physician in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland — Read on http://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/6115

Desert Medicine in Namibia, 2018 — Adventure Medic

Dr Hannah Schneiders / Clinical teaching fellow (PGY5) / Great Western Hospital Hannah Schneiders recounts her experience on expedition to the Namibian desert with Exile Medics. Here she reflects on a week of desert survival skills and what she has applied in expedition medicine and medical education since. Exile medics provide multidisciplinary medical cover for… DesertContinue reading “Desert Medicine in Namibia, 2018 — Adventure Medic”

China helps evacuate sick Australian from Antarctica in five-day mission | Antarctica | The Guardian

Ships, helicopters and planes traverse thousands of kilometres of icy continent in complex, multinational medical evacuation — Read on amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/25/china-helps-evacuate-sick-australian-from-antarctica-in-five-day-mission

“It’s Only Brain Surgery”: Using 3D Printing and Simulation to Prepare Rural Physicians for the Management of Acute Epidural Hematoma

“It’s Only Brain Surgery”: Using 3D Printing and Simulation to Prepare Rural Physicians for the Management of Acute Epidural Hematoma — Read on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704185/

Guidelines for Burn Care Under Austere Conditions | Journal of Burn Care & Research | Oxford Academic

Guidelines for Burn Care Under Austere Conditions: Introduction to Burn Disaster, Airway and Ventilator Management, and Fluid Resuscitation — Read on academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/37/5/e427/4563466