Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds

A relatively brief and evidence free opinion piece about intubation. As always, feedback is welcomed.

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AmboFOAM Intubation Rant Podcast

Here is another guest post by my colleague James. This is an excellent piece on the importance of approaching scenarios in a cohesive, standardised manner that still allows some flexibility. Emergency medicine is actually based on some pretty simple concepts as James discusses.

As an ALS clinical instructor who also dabbles in teaching at university, the one single concept I harangue all my students with is the idea of having a good clinical approach. Teaching many students in one form or another has shown me that this is the single most useful thing that anyone can learn in paramedicine. Unfortunately it’s one of the most unevenly applied and its importance is poorly understood. So today I want to try to get across why it’s critical that the student paramedic gets this straight in their head.

OK, thanks to all who answered CASE#6 ‘Find the bleeding, stop the bleeding’

Plenty of good ideas, although some of the options are more realistic than others given the inevitable constraints of rurality. Glad that none followed the EMST mantra to the letter and killed him…

The setting of rural Australia poses a challenge, especially for those used to working in larger centres. James and Casey are used to this kind of stuff (although Casey’s mostly in-hospital and has even got a CT scanner…James is used to working out of a tent wearing just rabbit skins). Credit to Derek & Hildy for having a bash with spot on answers – but with kit we just don’t have!

You can read the case and initial comments here

Case discussions like these can be useful to reinforce what we already know and perhaps look at things from a new perspective. I chose…