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Recent Posts
- CGD 22/5/13 – A “Precerebral Thump” to everything you thought you knew about cardiac arrest
- Sydney HEMS Supervisor of Training assaulted by registrars…..for training.
- Simulation Debrief 13/5/13 – Difficult Decisions
- Clinical Governance Day 22nd May 2013
- Simulation Debrief 2/5/13 – Snugly stowed and about to blow?
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- Downstream Cardiac Arrest Management and Science Fiction by Dr Helen Ellis from our Clinical Governance Day: youtu.be/S6ZwJcjItfI 1 day ago
- More from Your Man: Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Technology by @jglash: youtu.be/mHMaPLxDyfo 1 day ago
- Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Latest Evidence by @jglash at our Clinical Governance Day : youtu.be/9Y_d2zNCpq4 via @youtube 2 days ago
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Archives
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Scene times for rural retrieval in Scotland
The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) provides an aeromedical retrieval service to remote and rural communities in Scotland. They examined 300 retrievals over a five year period and showed a correlation between amount of critical care interventions required and total … Continue reading
Paediatric arrest outcomes
A study of out-of-hospital paediatric arrests in Melbourne gives some useful outcome data: overall, paediatric victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survived to leave hospital in 7.7% of cases, which is similar to adult survival in the same emergency system (8%). … Continue reading
Ketamine for HEMS intubation in Canada
Ketamine was used by clinical staff from the The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) in Alberta to facilitate intubation in both the pre-hospital & in-hospital setting (with a neuromuscular blocker in only three quarters of cases). Changes in vital … Continue reading
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Tagged airway, critical care, HEMS, ketamine, paramedic, Prehospital, RSI
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Pre-hospital RSI by different specialties
This aim of the study was to evaluate the tracheal intubation success rate of doctors drawn from different clinical specialities performing rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in the pre-hospital environment operating on the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. Over a 5-year … Continue reading
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EM trainee RSI experience
A single centre observational study of rapid sequence intubation (RSI) was performed in a Scottish Emergency Department (ED) over four and a quarter years, followed by a postal survey of ED RSI operators. There were 329 RSIs during the study … Continue reading
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AED Use in Children Now Includes Infants
From the new 2010 resuscitation guidelines: For attempted defibrillation of children 1 to 8 years of age with an AED, the rescuer should use a pediatric dose-attenuator system if one is available. If the rescuer provides CPR to a child … Continue reading
Resuscitation Guideline Changes
The European Resuscitation Council’s Summary of Major Changes in the 2010 guidelines can be downloaded here
CAB rather than ABC
The 2010 ILCOR resuscitation guidelines were published today. Key changes and continued points of emphasis from the 2005 BLS Guidelines include the following: Sequence change to chest compressions before rescue breaths (CAB rather than ABC) Immediate recognition of sudden cardiac … Continue reading
New CPR Guidelines
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation has published its five-yearly update of resuscitation guidelines. The American Heart Association Guidelines can be accessed here The European Resuscitation Guidelines can be accessed here 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and … Continue reading
