Greater Sydney Area HEMS

You know you want to come! Don’t be put off by the spelling of hors d’oeuvres. There’s more to life than that!

Next Wednesday’s Clinical Governance Day will be held at Wollongong as a combined Sydney-Wollongong event.

The theme will be Urban Search & Rescue, with a focus on the medical aspects of USAR missions and the recent deployments in New Zealand and Japan.

We are privileged to have a guest speaker from the United States, Dr David Cone. Dr Cone’s extensive CV includes being Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health and EMS Section Chief at Yale University, the editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Emergency Medicine, and being a recent president of the National Association of EMS Physicians. He has served as Medical Team Manager of two urban search and rescue task forces (Pennsylvania and Connecticut). He is also a trained Emergency Medical Technician and firefighter!

Please let Madhura and Mark Newcombe know if you’re planning to attend so we can organise transport and catering.

Hopefully we’ll see you there

Please note that some flexibility is required regarding the handover process, as some trauma centres would prefer handover with the patient still on the stretcher.

This recommendation has come from ITIM‘s Trauma Team Training course.

If you have concerns over the stability of the patient, oxygen supplies etc, then please state your preference to transfer prior to handover – and the reasons why – politely to the team leader. Otherwise kindly comply with the team’s preferred sequence.

Many thanks for your flexibility.