Greater Sydney Area HEMS

Open Day at GSA-HEMS

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Cliff Reid

Registrars considering working in Prehospital & Retrieval Medicine are welcome to visit us for a day of training on Thursday 21st November 2013.

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Clinical Governance Day 8th October 2013

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dr Sean Scott

An approximation of the upcoming program.

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Massive transfusion (with lego) – Dr Sean Scott

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dr Sean Scott

Sean discusses the recent developments in our approach to patients with critical bleeding. He reviews damage control resuscitation, the role of TEG in trauma and the nuts and bolts of massive transfusion. Keep your eyes out for the coagulation cascade explained with lego!

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Knockdown gases – Dr Sameer Mal

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dr Sean Scott

Sameer shares his experience of managing a patient with an unknown toxic gas exposure and provides us with a sensible approach to these rare patients. He reivews of knockdown gases like cyanide and hydrogen sulfide along with the use of B12 as an antidote and methemoglobinemia

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Clinical Governance Day 25th September 2013

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Cliff Reid

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Prehospital & retrieval medicine in review

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Cliff Reid

In this 30 minute audio podcast recorded at the SMACC conference in 2013 Sydney HEMS physician Dr Alex Tzannes outlines what’s new in the prehospital & retrieval medicine literature, and busts some myths along the way.

You can download the podcast by right-clicking here

Here are the accompanying slides:

Further talks from SMACC are available for free download on iTunes.

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To Air is Human

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Cliff Reid

In this 25 minute audio podcast recorded at the SMACC conference in 2013 Sydney HEMS physician Dr Karel Habig talks about reducing (and trapping) error in retrieval medicine, and whether we can really apply lessons from aviation to our complex medical environment.