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3 Minutes of Preoxygenation
This presentation by retrievalist/anaesthetist/intensivist Dr Clare Hayes-Bradley summarises recent Sydney HEMS research into optimal preoxygenation techniques prior to rapid sequence induction. References: 1. Hayes-Bradley C, Lewis A, Burns B, Miller M. Efficacy of Nasal Cannula Oxygen as a Preoxygenation Adjunct … Continue reading
Pearls from the Airway Registry – CGD 29/06/2016
(Thanks again to Dr. Clare Hayes-Bradley for presenting the latest Airway Registry and penning the subsequent discussion points below.) To RSI or not to RSI, that is the question… It’s foul weather, near zero degrees and torrential rain, it’s night, … Continue reading
Posted in Airway, General PH&RM, Presentations, training
Tagged agitation, airway, bougie, CGD, ketamine, pre-hospital, procedures, RSI, Trauma
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Prehospital Emergency Anaesthesia Checklist
Our RSI checklist is performed in a challenge-response fashion. The clinician who established the equipment set-up reads, while the other clinician checks and responds. Any discussion, such as difficult laryngoscopy plan, briefing the individual who is immobilising the neck, and … Continue reading
Apnoeic Oxygenation: Essential in Prehospital RSI
This was a talk from the 2014 London Trauma Conference by Cliff Reid How it works – review by Nicholas Chrimes When it all started in #FOAMed in Dec 2010 – NODESAT article by Rich Levitan We tried it and liked it, so … Continue reading
CGD 23rd April 2014 – A comes before B comes before C
The latest CGD saw us look at all things airway. With some scary case-based discussions, excellent debate, a great presentation on the NAP4 findings and a simulation that would make the most senior anaesthetist experience code brown moments, the Sydney … Continue reading
Towards A Universal Prehospital RSI SOP?
Mainland European countries have a long history of sending physicians out with emergency medical services to provide prehospital critical care. It is interesting to note an almost universal standard in the conduct of prehospital emergency anaesthesia by prehospital critical care … Continue reading
Prehospital RSI
Here are the slides of the presentation delivered by Dr Peter Sherren to ACAP NSW in October 2012 Pre hospital rapid sequence intubation from nswhems
Paramedic RSI in Australia
A prospective, randomized, controlled trial compared paramedic rapid sequence intubation with hospital intubation in adults with severe traumatic brain injury in four cities in Victoria, Australia. The primary outcome was neurologic outcome at 6 months postinjury. Training Paramedics already experienced … Continue reading
Posted in General PH&RM
Tagged airway, outcome, paramedic, Prehospital, RSI, TBI, Trauma
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Ketamine for HEMS intubation in Canada
Ketamine was used by clinical staff from the The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) in Alberta to facilitate intubation in both the pre-hospital & in-hospital setting (with a neuromuscular blocker in only three quarters of cases). Changes in vital … Continue reading
Posted in General PH&RM
Tagged airway, critical care, HEMS, ketamine, paramedic, Prehospital, RSI
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Pre-hospital RSI by different specialties
This aim of the study was to evaluate the tracheal intubation success rate of doctors drawn from different clinical specialities performing rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in the pre-hospital environment operating on the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. Over a 5-year … Continue reading
Posted in General PH&RM
Tagged airway, education, Prehospital, procedures, RSI, training
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Greater Sydney Area HEMS 