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The ‘Hidden C’

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The Importance of Civility in Critical Care Resuscitation A 3-year-old patient with diabetic ketoacidosis arrives at your ED. While you are leading the resuscitation, one of your senior colleagues belittles a junior staff member for struggling to site an IV line. Conclusion Critical care resuscitation is stressful.

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Why the interest in pre-hospital? Why not?!

Mind The Bleep

Nith Inshore Rescue work closely with other emergency services, including the Scottish Ambulance Service, and have taken part in multi-agency training exercises to practice our handovers and inter-agency teamwork skills. Enough about me and my experience… What can you do within pre-hospital care as part of your career?

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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

ACEP Now

Scientific Rigor Red Cross resuscitation courses closely align with the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) recommendations. Major resuscitation organizations worldwide meet in this forum to share knowledge and best practices. All three leverage the latest educational methodologies.

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Episode 15: Paediatric Trauma & How to Do Sim

PHEM Cast

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. In situ simulation: detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency department. Scenario based outdoor simulation in pre-hospital trauma care using a simple mannequin model. Patterson MD, Geis GL, Falcone RA, LeMaster T, Wears RL.

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Neonatal Resus for the Pre-Hospital Non-Neonatologist

Greater Sydney Area HEMS

At one of our recent education days we heard Dr Mark Russell and Dr Mark Newcombe deliver excellent presentations of cases which they had been involved in, involving resuscitative hysterotomy and neonatal resuscitation respectively. Resuscitate in air first, and use higher inflation pressures than you would with adults.

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Getting everyone to sing in harmony

Don't Forget the Bubbles

But, just like a ‘good’ resuscitation, the secret to a great jam is lots of preparation and finely-tuned teamwork. It has developed my leadership, followership, and teamwork skills. ACEM President – 2022 In medical circles, we talk a lot about learning leadership and teamwork through sports.

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Podcast: ECPR

PEMBlog

This episode of PEM Currents discusses ECPR (Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), an advanced procedure used in cases of cardiac arrest when traditional CPR fails. Establishing an ECPR program requires robust infrastructure, multidisciplinary teamwork, and extensive training. Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

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