Remove Ambulance Services Remove Head Injuries Remove Wellness
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Trauma Care Day 3

PHEM Cast

Prehospital paediatric RSI We do it less despite similar injury aetiology/patterns Most children’s airways can be managed by basic manoeuvres However, children with a significant head injury deserve best airway care – ventilation, metabolic, haemodynamics, positioning.

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CASE #6 UPDATE – FIND THE BLEEDING, STOP THE BLEEDING

Rural Doctors Net

Importantly the ambulance service in many rural areas will be staffed by volunteers – trained to Cert IV level but unable to cannulate, give drugs (other than penthrox/GTN) or intubate. Sure he’s got a traumatic amputation – your tourniquet has arrested the bleeding, but there may well be more blood loss.

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