Just published on wemjournal.org, ahead of print: The Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness: 2024 Update! #WEMjournal #altitude #evidencebasedmedicine

This post is about #ProlongedFieldCare #PFC This stuff is second nature to nurses but other rural/pre-hospital folk probably benefit from a refresher! Great bit of education from NHS Highland ! highlandpict.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/nur…

What pocket guides do you use? Especially ones covering wilderness medicine…

Keele university dropped this about PAs

And there it is. The GMC was created for the sole purpose of protecting patients from unqualified pseudo doctors by facilitating the safe identification of qualified doctors. Today they boast of their wholesale abandonment of this core purpose. A complete dereliction of duty.

I hadn’t seen this method of skin making before doing nerve blocks or drains before, seems useful highlandpict.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/syr…

One for our rural prehospital folk and island folk to consider? How handy is this!? Rural GPs Scotland (now on bluesky) ruralGP #RuralPHEM #PHEM #prehospital #EMS #PoCUS

Skin marking for procedures… No pen needed highlandpict.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/syr…

#NATO #Alphabet cheat sheet!

Have you seen the North of Scotland has a rural land-based trauma team? highlandpict.wordpress.com #EMS #WEMS #PHEM

highlandpict.wordpress.com/2024/06/21/pae… #paediatric #trauma

Interesting to consider which elements of care for patients with a #NOF we could push into the prehospital phase highlandpict.wordpress.com/2024/08/02/nof/ #ambulance #paramedic

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Have a look at this great charity supporting Ukraine pajassinternational.org

Some interesting ECG “rules” here highlandpict.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/pre…

As a new FY1, having just certified my very first death - on a very, very, long night shift - I made myself a cup of NHS tea. The nurse in charge subsequently threatened me with disciplinary action for ‘stealing’. As a new ICU Registrar in Aus, I was asked for my address - so

#RTC chain of survival highlandpict.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/the…