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Working with Standards that are Forgetful – Australian NSQHS Standards and Retrieval Medicine
Originally posted on The Collective:
In times where external standards are increasingly applied to health services, where does retrieval medicine fit in? Dr Alan Garner shares his insights after wrestling with the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards process. In Australia, national reform processes for health services began in the years following the 2007…
Why Chest Tube and Surgical Airway are the same
HEMS vs GEMS. By ground or by air: which is the best way to take care of traumatized patients
Originally posted on MEDEST:
22 years old male hit from a car on the roadside of an urban area. The ground EMS ambulance (physician, nurse staffed), dispatched on scene, find the patient alert, oriented and spontaneously breathing. His vitals are: GCS 15 , RR 20, SaO2 95, HR 85, SBP 110 No mention of head…
Pick a Number! – The Enemy at the Gate
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Cricoid Pressure in DAS 2015 Intubation Guidelines: an update.
Originally posted on MEDEST:
Below you can read the answer to my question (Cricoid pressure in new DAS (Difficult Airway Society) Guidelines: still on?) from Chris Frerk, Chair of DAS guidelines group: ? “Mario Thanks for your thoughtful comments The website posting is necessarily brief and there will be more detail in the developing paper.…
Risky Business – Weighing Things Up
Originally posted on The Collective:
The excellent Dr Paul Bailey returns to provide more practical insights from the bit of his work that involves coordination of international medical retrieval. This is the second in (we hope) a recurring series which started here. Greetings everyone, it’s a pleasure to be back for the long awaited second…
Cricoid pressure in new DAS (Difficult Airway Society) Guidelines: still on?
Originally posted on MEDEST:
Background story: This is the post I wrote about the DAS April 2015 draft on intubation Guidelines: DAS (Difficult Airway Society) released a draft of its intubating Guidelines for evaluation and comment before definitive update. Previuos 2007 Guidelines are available here DAS Intubation Guidelines This is the link to download the…
VL tecnique in suspect intracranial bleeding
Originally posted on MEDEST:
62 yrs old male found unconscious GCS 6 (E1,V1, P4). Sign of vomiting and inhalation. Profoundly hypoxic, hypertensive (BP 200 over 110). Pupils were miotic with anisocoria dx>sx. The team, after aspiration of gastric material from the airway, decided for airway control, before transport. The patient is overweight with a “taurine”…
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Examining the Hairs on the Yak – A Good Chance for More Chat
Originally posted on The Collective:
One of the good things about research that has its own issues, is that there is lots of scope to learn from the things about it that are good, as well as those that aren’t so great. The nice thing about ongoing comment is it gives even more chances to…
Same, same? Actually different
Originally posted on The Collective:
More of the operational data from the Head Injury Retrieval Trial has just been published. By luck more than anything else this has occurred within 24 hours of the publication of the main trial results which you can find here. Some operational data about systems used in the trial has…
HIRT – Studying a Non-Standard System that Ended up as Standard
Originally posted on The Collective:
There’s always a bit of extra reflection you can’t include in the discussion of a research paper. Dr Alan Garner reflects more on some of the challenges of doing research in prehospital medicine. The main results of the Head Injury Retrieval Trial have now been published on-line in Emergency Medicine Journal. We have…
RSI Basics Podcast with Minh Le Cong (@ketaminh on twitter)
Originally posted on DOWNSTAIRS CARE OUT THERE BLOG:
A Podcast with Minh Le Cong on beginner RSI. Recorded for my own personal reference but its such a great resource for Paramedics, Paramedic Students and a good all round touch up on the subject with a person much more knowledgeable than I. If your not listening…
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