Author Archives: robertlloyd85

Improving organisation-wide learning from “Coffee & Cases”: A quality improvement project

Posted on August 2, 2023 by robertlloyd85

This blog post is an accompaniment to a presentation at the August ’23 Clinical Governance Day. The purpose of the talk was to update the service on the Quality Improvement Project I have been leading on. Why is C+C important?– … Continue reading →

Posted in General PH&RM | Tagged C&C, Coffee and Cases, education, QIP, quality improvement | 2 Comments

Coffee and Cases Snippets: Don’t Leave Me In Suspense

Posted on April 27, 2023 by robertlloyd85

By Raphael Dworkin, HEMS registrar. Every morning our team discusses cases over coffee. Here is a useful snippet… Fictional Vignette– 52M rally car driver accidentally clips a tyre wall causing his car to flip upside down at low speed. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Cases, General PH&RM | Tagged 1.2.3, 1.2.9, Coffee and Cases, Coffee and Cases Snippets, crush injury, Suspension trauma, Trauma | 3 Comments

Top 10 Coffee and Cases Snippets from April 2023

Posted on April 6, 2023 by robertlloyd85

Thanks for a great month of case discussion!The C+C QI project team

Posted in Cases, General PH&RM | Tagged 1.2.12, 1.2.5, 1.2.8, 1.2.9, airway, burns, Coffee and Cases, Coffee and Cases Snippets, education, EVD, paediatrics, Prehospital, procedures, retrieval, RSI, Suspension trauma | 2 Comments

Coffee and Cases Snippets: Intubating the patient with a HAGMA

Posted on April 6, 2023 by robertlloyd85

Every morning our team discusses cases over coffee. Here is a useful snippet… Patients with a severe high anion gap metabolic acidosis (e.g. from severe DKA, AKI, toxic ingestions, severe lactataemia from bleeding/sepsis/some other form of badness) have a markedly … Continue reading →

Posted in acid-base, Airway, General PH&RM, Interhospital | Tagged 1.2.5, 1.2.9, airway, Coffee and Cases, Coffee and Cases Snippets, HAGMA, metabolic acidosis, RSI, severe metabolic acidosis | 3 Comments

Reflecting on two months as a Sydney HEMS registrar

Posted on October 20, 2022 by robertlloyd85

Uniform fitted. Induction complete. 10-mission milestone reached. It has been a learning frenzy. I’m a UK-trained emergency physician, and am two months into my year as a Sydney HEMS registrar. Some of my early reflections on the experience have had … Continue reading →

Posted in General PH&RM, human factors, Tips, training | Tagged 1.2.1, 3.1.1, 4.1.1, education, induction, pre-hospital, retrieval, Trauma | 2 Comments