Remember that your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC may continue to rise awhile after you have stopped drinking.

I don’t find it as funny when I watch videos of people in low middle income regions, with the best of intentions, incorrectly performing an emergency procedure on a person. Whether it’s CPR in a chair, or slapping the face of an unconscious person; We laugh with privilege

Trauma patients are getting older & more complex, so we’re updating our trauma guidelines at Ambulance Victoria. I sat down with some of our MICA flight paramedics to talk all things trauma and learn from their experience. We’ll share the conversation on Clinical Conversations soon!

Some basic airway stuff for you: Understanding Why Hyperangulated Laryngoscope Blades Require a Different Technique or You Can Get Into Trouble! youtu.be/mRll3HQPcy8

Once again with gusto, the NHS is responsible for providing services, not you. Do not sacrifice yourself or your wellbeing to keep the machine running, as it will simply chew you up and spit you out.

New dissections from our amazing anatomy team!! #airway #PAC23 #intubation #laryngoscopy

How to optimise non-technical skills (CRM) in EMS / HEMS work (applicable to inhospital critical care too): Four Minutes on the Zero Point Survey youtube.com/watch?v=EtlaU7…

So my partner and I got a corgi puppy, and it has brought such joy to my life. The sleepless nights are absolutely worth it 🐕🥰

I feel seen

Just about every ambo I know has gone for the 5am coffee to see them through the final stretch of a long night. RIP, your service was short, but is now eternal.

It is so heartbreaking to hear of such a senseless, despicable act happen to a NSW Ambulance paramedic. Murdered in the line of duty. My heart goes out to the family of the officer, and to my ambulance family who go above and beyond every day for others. #zerotolerance

Great advice from senior CCP Tash Adams on managing stress in prehospital crit care. Tip 1: put your gloves on after you walk into the scene - gives you 30 secs to size up the scene and avoid tunnel vision. Tip 2: crit care is provided by a team, not an individual. #critcare23

Incredibly excited to see this in print What a fantastic piece of research by my friend Peter Snelling and the team BUCKLED Research POCUS by Nurse Practitioners, ED Physiotherapist, or Doctor for forearm # Brilliant work

“You call, we haul” is a taxi service. Not a modern ambulance service. If your funding is linked to transports, the your funding is flawed.

Insightful sector analysis from Prof.Paresh Wankhade FAcSS. Strength of the 7 issues influence on the local situation will vary regionally. They are connected & influence each other with the biggest in my view being the operating model. This has to shift radically as it drives the others.

Happy #InternationalParamedicsDay Thanks to all #paramedics for all your efforts in supporting each other, being a key part of community care and keeping our patients safe. Australasian College of Paramedicine (ACP) NSW Ambulance SydneyHEMS

Met a guy on a dating app He had an unprovoked MI at ~24yo He put it down to anxiety friends said it was probably a chest infection doctor said likely costochondritis … He had wellness syndrome on ECG All chest pain is high risk chest pain until interrogated properly

😍 Proud of our MICA paramedics for another successful launch of a world-first clinical trial: Today the #PANDA trial enrolled its 1st patient! The #PANDA trial will end the long-standing debate around the optimal vasoactive agent for cardiogenic shock in the prehospital setting

🔓Airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury. Matt Wiles Helen Iliff Mike Donnellon 💙 @leechcaroline Steve Mathieu Matt Harris Kariem #OpenAccess Now #OpenAccess and #FreeForever! 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

David Jones presenting about what to do when everything goes wrong. Talking about the FORDEC model #EUSEM2024