Category Archives: training

PEEP For Lung Recruitment

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Cliff Reid

As we continue to increase the number of ways to use our procedure lab day for training, Dr Geoff Healy demonstrates the effect of incremental PEEP on lung recruitment in a pig carcass at Sydney HEMS Induction Training     … Continue reading →

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Advanced Airway – Flexible Optic Intubation

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Cliff Reid

Dr Geoff Healy explains the use of the Ambu a-Scope 2 for flexible-optic intubation at HEMS Team Induction Training in Sydney.

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Handover Tips

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Cliff Reid

Tips on the dos and don’ts of handover at the trauma centre for a HEMS patient by Dr Karel Habig  

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Maxillofacial haemorrhage control

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Cliff Reid

Dr Geoff Healy explains the prehospital management of maxillofacial haemorrhage at HEMS Team Induction Training in Sydney.  

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Clinical Governance Day 28th January 2015

Posted on January 25, 2015 by domrayment

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Prehospital Trauma Education

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Cliff Reid

This talk was presented at the London Trauma Conference in December 2014, by Dr Cliff Reid, Director of Training for Greater Sydney Area HEMS. Dr Reid explains how the HEMS induction program is crafted, and how it has evolved to … Continue reading →

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Winch Operations

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Cliff Reid

This presentation was given at the Retrieval 2014 conference in Glasgow.

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Clinical Governance Day 14th January 2015

Posted on January 10, 2015 by domrayment

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Escharotomy Man 2.0

Posted on November 18, 2014 by domrayment

By Sydney HEMS registrar Jamie Andrews For Clinical Governance Day on 5th of November 2014, (Burns theme for Guy Fawkes Night care of the UK contingent!) I was tasked with re-producing Dr Ed Burns’ escharotomy model. Ed had previously hoped that the … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Retrieval Medicine

Posted on November 14, 2014 by domrayment

Several of the Sydney HEMS retrieval physicians describe some of the challenges of prehospital & retrieval medicine  

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