MEDEST | Prehospital Emergency Medicine
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Description: The Pre-Hospital & Retrieval Medicine Team of NSW Ambulance
By Raphael Dworkin, HEMS registrar .
Every morning our team discusses cases over coffee. Here is a useful snippet…
Fictional Vignette – 52M rally car driver accidentally clips a tyre wall causing his car to flip upside down at low speed. It takes approx. 30 mins for scene to be cleared and ambulance teams to arrive. Patient is suspended vertically by safety harness throughout this time. – Prior to extraction, he was GCS 15 and talking. Soon after HEMS attendance he became acutely confused and subsequently arrested, with ROSC several minutes later. – Eventual hospital assessment demonstrated no traumatic injuries. Was ‘
MEDEST | Prehospital Emergency Medicine
The Course - Resuscitology.com