Intubation by paramedics using the ILMA or AirTraq, KingVision, and Macintosh laryngoscopes in vehicle-entrapped patients: a manikin study

blind intubation via ILMA
blind intubation via ILMA

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CASE #5 : SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY BABY

Help out Tim please!

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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 rural community curriculum).

Time will tell whether this initiative translates to a career in rural medicine. However one thing is clear, the PRCC students are far more likely to get hands-on experience, whether it be doing minor gynae procedures, assisting at a LSCS, basics of airway management, assessment of undifferentiated patients in the ED or having own consulting sessions.

This week’s problem-based learning session is on a neonate with breathing and feeding difficulties. As an experiment, I am putting the case up and hoping that #FOAMed enthusiasts will be able to comment – because I’d love to demonstrate the power of…

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Airway Checklist Practicalities and FOAMed PHARM Kit Dump Update

Airway Checklists EMCrit and Kit Dump 3.4

Confessions of a novice PHARM co-author: I am guilty of blogging negligence for not posting this sooner. I had an asynchronous conversation with Scott Weingart on Airway Checklist real world implementation …Continue reading “Airway Checklist Practicalities and FOAMed PHARM Kit Dump Update”

Palliative Care Paramedics?

Nice One Rob!

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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, stabbings and so on that I have been dwelling on, although these play a large part in my everyday life.  Rather it is the is the inevitable deaths, the natural deaths of those at the ends of their lives that I have been dwelling on.  In my opinion paramedics (myself included) do not deal with these situations very well, despite the fact that we are called to them on a daily basis.

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PODCAST #16 – Retrieval Practitioner Mr Ben Stanton (medSTAR)

Another great podcast by Tim on Retrieval Nurse Practitioner Ben Stanton from MedSTAR

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Pleasure today to chat to Mr Ben Stanton – ICU Nurse and Retrieval Practitioner with medSTAR South Australia on both the retrieval practitioner role and tips for packaging of the critical patient for rural clinicians

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PODCAST #18 : Dr Ed Valentine on BASICS (UK)

Great podcast by Tim with Ed Valentine on UK BASICS

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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 “value add” to the scene despite existing paramedic services and the relative proximity of tertiary hospitals in the UK compared with Australia.

Ed promises to come ‘down under’ to SMACC GOLD in March 2014, so we’ll set aside a cold one for him in the SMACC lounge

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