-
-
Recent Posts
Tweets from SydneyHEMS
- RT @wildernessmd: Old @SydneyHEMS kit dump / checklist (now used for trash collection on-scene), turned into office wall art! https://t.co/… 1 month ago
- RT @tollambulance: Every year, around 34,000 Australians and New Zealanders suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Today, we are taking par… 1 month ago
- We use these resources as part of the suite of training materials @SydneyHEMS for emergency medical procedures. twitter.com/nswaci/status/… 1 month ago
- RT @tollambulance: "I always throw her the ball while waiting for my wife to finish work at Moruya hospital, it was great to see the helico… 1 month ago
- RT @cliffreid: Thursday: ED - setting up to intubate. DuCanto catheters now standard in Resus Friday: Retrieval - doing team pack checks.… 2 months ago
Archives
Tag Archives: monitoring
Zoll X Series Monitor HR/PR Tone – Deep Dive
‘The patient’s sats were 100% when I pushed the induction drugs. I thought the sats were fine as the pitch of the beeping from the monitor stayed the same, but when I looked back the patient had already started to … Continue reading
Passive leg raising during CPR
Measuring end-tidal carbon dioxide (ET CO2 ) is a practical non-invasive method for detecting pulmonary blood flow, reflecting cardiac output and thereby the quality of CPR. It has also been shown to rise before clinically detectable return of spontaneous circulation … Continue reading
Fetal monitoring during EMS transport
Can cardiotocography be applied in the pre-hospital setting? French physicians assessed its feasibility in 145 patients enrolled during 119 interhospital transfers and 26 primary prehospital missions. Their physician-staffed ambulance teams included 19 emergency physicians and one anaesthetist. Interpretable tracings were … Continue reading
Evidence refutes ATLS shock classification
I have always had a problem with the ATLS classification of hypovolaemic shock, and omit it from teaching as any clinical applicability and reproducibility seem to be entirely lost on me. I was therefore reassured to read that real physiological … Continue reading
ETCO2 and ROSC
One for the ‘hardly surprising’ category…. A study of end-tidal CO2 during out-of-hospital adult and child cardiac arrest resuscitation showed a sudden rise in CO2 was associated with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), suggesting that witnessing this would be a … Continue reading
Posted in General PH&RM
Tagged ACLS, ALS, arrest, capnography, monitoring
Tracheal tube cuff pressure in flight
Tracheal tube cuff pressures increased from a mean 28.7 cm H2O pre-flight to 62.6 cm H2O in flight (mean altitude increase 2260 feet) in a Swiss helicopter-based study. At cruising altitude, 98% of patients had intracuff pressure >30 cm H2O, 72% had … Continue reading
Posted in General PH&RM
Tagged air medical, airway, monitoring, pre-hospital
