Clinical Governance Day 25th February 2015

 Sandra Ware will be talking through the recently published Pragmatic Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios (PROPPR) Trial. It’s worth having a read through the article (unfortunately not open-access) before the Clinical Governance Day

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Simple surgical airway technique

Model and pig cricothyroidotomy practice at Sydney HEMS Induction 2015 demonstrating the approach: DECISION, INCISION, FINGER, BOUGIE, TUBE, CUFF, ETCO2 by Cliff Reid and Karel Habig

 

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PEEP For Lung Recruitment

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

 

 

See here for how we apply lung recruitment strategies in difficult-to-oxygenate patients.

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Advanced Airway – Flexible Optic Intubation

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

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

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

 

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Motor Vehicle Crash Considerations in Retrieval Medicine

An hour long exploration of motor crash management principles by Retrieval specialist Dr Geoff Healy

 

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Clinical Governance Day 28th January 2015

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Critical Care in the Sky

A review of Aviation Physiology by Dr Yashvi Wimalasena

 

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Transportation Issues in Prehospital & Retrieval Medicine

This half-hour summary by Dr Brian Burns covers Transportation Issues in Prehospital & Retrieval Medicine

 

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