Category Archives: General PH&RM

Burns Management Pearls from the Experts

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Preston Fedor

At our recent Clinical Governance Day (4/5/16) we were honored to have in attendance three experts who have dedicated their careers to the care of the burned patient. A cornucopia of pearls for prehospital and retrieval management were presented. The … Continue reading →

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Summary and Lessons from a Recent Paediatric Sim Session

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Preston Fedor

A paediatric simulation was conducted at our Clinical Governance Day on 6 April 2016. The sim itself and the summary below were crafted by Dr. Sarah Gollance. Our simulation scenario was a tasking to a young girl in respiratory distress … Continue reading →

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Clinical Governance Day, May 4th 2016

Posted on April 29, 2016 by davidmcqgmailcom

During next week’s CGD we’ll have a focus on Burns with some excellent outside speakers to share a case of burns from the Snowy Mountains. We’ll also get an update on burns management principles and advances in burns therapy from … Continue reading →

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Clinical Governance Day, 20th April 2016

Posted on April 19, 2016 by davidmcqgmailcom

As well as our regular Airway Audit and M&M we will have an update on the research that it being conducted by our own team as well as do a deep dive into the latest evidence around the drug treatment … Continue reading →

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Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Cliff Reid

If your career is in retrieval medicine, or you’d like it to be, you might want to strongly consider sitting the Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. There is no course, just … Continue reading →

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Airway Registry Pointers and Reminders

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Preston Fedor

Once a month, the structured reviews of all of our intubation attempts are presented at a Clinical Governance Day. Common themes and specific finer points are brought forward in an effort to improve our performance as a group. Below are … Continue reading →

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Prehospital Emergency Anaesthesia Checklist

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Cliff Reid

Our RSI checklist is performed in a challenge-response fashion. The clinician who established the equipment set-up reads, while the other clinician checks and responds. Any discussion, such as difficult laryngoscopy plan, briefing the individual who is immobilising the neck, and … Continue reading →

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Thinking of the children…

Posted on April 7, 2016 by davidmcqgmailcom

For a great review article of RSI in children check out the following article: BJA Educ (2016) 16 (4): 120-123  Place of rapid sequence induction in paediatric anaesthesia. R Newton, H Hack Predicting difficult airways in children: evaluation-of-difficult-airway-predictors-in-pediatric-population-as-a-clinical-investigation-2155-6148.1000256 Some key … Continue reading →

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Clinical Governance Day, April 6th 2016

Posted on April 4, 2016 by davidmcqgmailcom

This week’s CGD will be an cerebral infusion of paediatric excellence. We have a host of bona fide paediatric experts in our midst and now’s your chance to pick up their pearls of wisdom and maybe to share some of your … Continue reading →

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Literature Review: Are we intubating burn patients inappropriately?

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Preston Fedor

Review at CGD and summary by Dr. Alan Laverty Romanowski KS, Palmieri TL, Sen S, Greenhalgh DG. More Than One Third of Intubations in Patients Transferred to Burn Centers are Unnecessary Journal of Burn Care & Research. 2015 Aug 17 … Continue reading →

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