Tag Archives: 1.2.9

Coffee and Cases Snippets: Don’t Leave Me In Suspense

By Raphael Dworkin, HEMS registrar. Every morning our team discusses cases over coffee. Here is a useful snippet… Fictional Vignette– 52M rally car driver accidentally clips a tyre wall causing his car to flip upside down at low speed. It … Continue reading

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Top 10 Coffee and Cases Snippets from April 2023

Thanks for a great month of case discussion!The C+C QI project team

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Coffee and Cases Snippets: Intubating the patient with a HAGMA

Every morning our team discusses cases over coffee. Here is a useful snippet… Patients with a severe high anion gap metabolic acidosis (e.g. from severe DKA, AKI, toxic ingestions, severe lactataemia from bleeding/sepsis/some other form of badness) have a markedly … Continue reading

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Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Symposium

We were pleased to host the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Symposium on base back in February, and we are delighted to be able to bring you the recorded talks that featured on the day. Unfortunately we weren’t able to … Continue reading

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Critical care at Summer dance festivals: Pre-hospital management of illicit drug toxicity

Source: Pexels.com By Jess Hegedus Sydney HEMS recently provided medical teams to attend a number of dance festivals, as part of a NSW Government plan to provide specialist critical care at events where there is a high risk of drug … Continue reading

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