Greater Sydney Area HEMS

Take a look at the training video for the new SureVent 2 ventilators, which will be carried to prehospital missions.

For those of you who feel you could use a little more practice getting to know our existing Oxylog 3000 ventilators (which we will keep even after the arrival of our new 3000+ models), there is an excellent post on Life In The Fast Lane called ‘Own the Oxylog 3000!’

Click below to go to LITFL and do some owning.

A day of free training (and food) is being held from 07.30 to 15.00 on Thursday 10th November 2011.
A wide range of pre-hospital trauma and interhospital critical care will be covered, plus a chance to view the helicopters and road retrieval ambulances used by the Greater Sydney Area Helicopter Emergency Medical Service of the Ambulance Service New South Wales.

Places and food must be reserved by emailing mmahadev@ambulance.nsw.gov.au by Monday 7th November.

Directions to the base can be found here

Click the image below to download the flyer (316 KB).

Our ECMO retrieval system is highlighted in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald

Special Study Day on Ballistic Trauma, with talks from SCAT paramedics, the Police, and the Military.

Here’s how the training looked in July for our new registrars…

Click the image to be taken to Scott’s site if you want to hear your favourite Director of Training’s inane ranting.

This is the last CGD for the registrars who have been in a six month post since April. We’re grateful for their hard work and enthusiasm, and wish them success in their future endeavours.

Dr Malcolm Russell, a HEMS specialist from the UK, will be giving a talk at the Bankstown base on 15th November. He has been involved in military pre-hospital care with the British Army and is now the director of a civilian air ambulance service. He is the managing director of a company called Prometheus Medical Ltd which supplies equipment and training to military and civilian services.

We have invited Dr Russell to give a summary and demonstration of the latest haemorrhage control products. Knowing him, there will no doubt be a number of other show-and-tell goodies to accompany some of his fascinating case presentations.

Contact mailto:mmahadev@ambulance.nsw.gov.au if you are planning to come so your place and lunch can be reserved.

The session will run from 1200-1400 hrs on Tuesday 15th November 2011