Following a spate of aviation accidents in the 1980’s and 1990’s, Transport Canada and the aviation industry came up with the aviation ‘Dirty Dozen’ – human factors in aviation maintenance that commonly lead to errors.
Consider these in the context of your prehospital or emergency service:
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(thanks to Tim Leeuwenburg at KIdocs.org for this one!)
Our colleagues from Sydney have created an excellent group of podcasts about pre-hospital and retrieval medicine:
NEUROPROTECTION – covers retrieval of patients with neurological and neurosurgical emergencies; also view their helicopter operating procedure HERE
INTERHOSPITAL PATIENT ASSESSMENT – overview of the assessment of a critically ill patient requiring transfer from one facility to another
THE TRAPPED PATIENT – overview of the approach to a patient trapped in a vehicle
Auckland HEMS 