This presentation is from the ANZCA Airway Management and Trauma Special Interest Group Meeting in June 2013. It is delivered by Minh Le Cong (RFDS medical officer, Assistant Professor in Retrieval Medicine, and the world’s most ardent advocate for ketamine..)
If you haven’t already checked out Minh’s superb prehospital website, click HERE
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
The team at Auckland HEMS were somewhat surprised to see this story in the media on Monday:
Flying doctors struggle to find funding
Westpac Rescue Helicopter, Karekare
The Auckland HEMS project was originally a two year pilot conducted between Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust and Auckland District Health Board. Recently a proposal has been signed off to continue the project for another 3 years.
The Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust has released a press statement following the story above:
Dr Chris Denny, Medical Director of Auckland HEMS and Emergency Medicine Specialist, has the following to say: Click HERE
The report referenced in the TVNZ clip regarding rotary wing medical services in New South Wales is HERE
What do you think is the best staffing model for helicopter emergency medical systems? Feel free to contribute to the discussion using the comments section below.
Auckland HEMS 