Category Archives: General PH&RM

Clinical Governance Day 9th April 2014

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Cliff Reid

Our next CGD will focus on neurotrauma. Facilitators Ed Burns and Phil Webster have flipped the classroom. See below for your pre-CGD preparation. Here are the FOAM reading references for everyone…. 1. Read this overview of management of traumatic brain … Continue reading →

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Clinical Governance Day 26/3: The Morning After The Week Before

Posted on March 29, 2014 by elboghdadly

All of the attendees at this CGD were treated to a brilliant post-smaccGOLD desert, with an incredible guest speaker, a statistical review of one of the most important publications of the year, a fierce SIMWARS battle, and answers to the … Continue reading →

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Simulation Video

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Cliff Reid

Several of our paramedics, registrars, and consultants will be attending the SmaccGOLD conference this month. Here’s the video we submitted to allow us to compete in the Sim Wars competition.

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Clinical Governance Day 26 February 2014

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Cliff Reid

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Towards A Universal Prehospital RSI SOP?

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Cliff Reid

Mainland European countries have a long history of sending physicians out with emergency medical services to provide prehospital critical care. It is interesting to note an almost universal standard in the conduct of prehospital emergency anaesthesia by prehospital critical care … Continue reading →

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Clinical Governance Day 15th January 2014

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Cliff Reid

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2013 GSA HEMS Videos

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Cliff Reid

We get captured a lot on video which gets posted on YouTube. Here’s a compilation from 2013:

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January Clinical Governance Days

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Dr Sean Scott

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Lung Ultrasound in Extreme Environments

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Dr Sean Scott

At Sydney HEMS we are believers in the benefit of ultrasound in the prehospital & retrieval medicine environment. Lung ultrasound is of particular use in diagnosing pneumothoraces at noisy trauma scenes or in helicopters. Yash Wimalasena, one of our Retrieval Fellows … Continue reading →