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 an ICU or tertiary ED.
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King Vision VL vs Macintosh DL in novice intubators
Analysing communication errors in an air medical transport service
A recent study published in the May-June 2013 edition of Air Medical Journal analyzed a randomly selected group of quality assurance reports looking for communication errors. Quality assurance reports examined had been submitted in circumstances of issues, adverse events, or simply high risk activities (for example patient requiring intubation, or scene times exceeding 20 minutes)
Of 278 reports analysed, 58 (21%) were found to involve communication errors. Communication errors were categorised according to Clark’s Communication Level Hierarchy:
Level 1: CHANNEL – establishing a means of communication between people – e.g verbal communication, digital communication
Level 2: SIGNAL – the transmitted data, for example the sound in a verbal communication or the text in a digital communication
Level 3: INTENTION – the semantic meaning derived from the content within the data
Level 4: CONVERSATION – the joint activitiy that is understood between people communication (e.g. shared mental model)
Of 65 communication…
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Brian Burns: Trauma before and beyond the hospital – from SMACC 2013
From the SMACC 2013 conference – this podcast is Dr Brian Burns (Greater Sydney Area HEMS) speaking about managing trauma patients in extremis and in extreme conditions
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Anthony Holley: War – What is it good for? From SMACC 2013
From SMACC 2013 – Anthony Holley (Intensivist from Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, LCDR in Royal Australian Naval Reserve) brings a military perspective to advances made in trauma management on and off the battlefield.
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Welcome to the first ever AmboFOAM podcast
well done Rob!
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.
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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
Help out Tim please!
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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Controlled rapid sequence induction & intubation
Airway Checklist Practicalities and FOAMed PHARM Kit Dump Update
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”
SHOULD MEDICAL STUDENTS LEARN INTUBATION?? PHARM POLL SURVEY RESULTS ARE IN!!!
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SHOULD MEDICAL STUDENTS LEARN INTUBATION??
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Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine - THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 
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