Palliative Care Paramedics?

Nice One Rob!

Robbie (@AmboFOAM)'s avatarAmboFOAM

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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http://ruraldoctorsdotnet1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/ben-stanton.mp3

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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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Intubation via a Supraglottic Airway without any paralytic

Jim DuCanto demonstrates how he intubates via the AirQ SGA using the AirVu optical stylet. This is done using gaseous and local anaesthesia alone WITHOUT RECOURSE TO PARALYTICS OR IV INDUCTION AGENTS

Making MORE THINGS HAPPEN with Jim DuCanto (with a bit of help from Cliff Reid & friends)

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Cliff Reid and colleagues presented this poster at the Aeromedical Society of Australasia and Flight Nurses Australasia 2012 meeting in Cairns

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