In this podcast, sourced from emcrit.org, Scott Weingart (ED Intensivist from New York City, founder of emcrit.org) and Cliff Reid (Great Sydney Area HEMS, founder of resus.me) discuss pre-hospital intubation and ‘stay and play’ versus ‘scoop and run’ in pre-hospital care.

These are two of the Godfathers of FOAM (free open access meducation).

The podcast is here (right-click if you wish to download), and makes reference to this video clip from London HEMS, which shows a paediatric RSI for TBI with pulmonary contusions and blood in the airway.

“We anaesthetise a child probably once every month. We train for it, but we don’t do very many of them.”