Category Archives: General PH&RM

HEMS Debrief #1 – Dr Cliff Reid

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Cliff Reid

In the first in this series, HEMS physician and podcast host Dr Samuel Bulford interviews senior staff specialist Dr Cliff Reid who describes a case that changed his life and set his approach to mission preparation and training on a … Continue reading →

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Education Day – Wed 24th May, 2023

Posted on May 21, 2023 by KylieAiliuua
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Clinical Governance Day – Wed 10 May 2023

Posted on May 4, 2023 by KylieAiliuua
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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 →

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Education Day – Wed 26th Apr, 2023

Posted on April 21, 2023 by KylieAiliuua
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Neonatal Resus for the Pre-Hospital Non-Neonatologist

Posted on April 16, 2023 by sunell85

It is a rare but confronting situation where a pre-hospital and retrieval medicine team are presented with a sick newborn. At one of our recent education days we heard Dr Mark Russell and Dr Mark Newcombe deliver excellent presentations of … Continue reading →

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Clinical Governance Day – Wed 12 Apr 2023

Posted on April 6, 2023 by KylieAiliuua
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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

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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 →

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One Lung Ventilation in Retrieval Medicine

Posted on March 30, 2023 by sunell85

Part of our education day on Jan 4th 2023 focussed on the rare but confronting need to move to one lung ventilation (OLV) in the pre-hospital or retrieval environment. We heard from Dr John Floridis, a rural generalist and emergency … Continue reading →

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