Luke Houston

Paramedic |
Interests: Critical Care, Resuscitation & Trauma |
Realities: Banging the drum about DSED to anyone who will listen.

[Battlefield @Battlefield]

The #Battlefield6 Open Beta goes live in T-24 Hours.

Rally your squad, and watch each other's 6️⃣

[Sheldon Cheskes @DrCheskes]

Superb news Luke! Slowly but surely people come around as we continue to produce high quality evidence on DSED, its mechanism and most important its benefit to those in refractory VF.

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

Recieved this message today, which has made the entire research process worth it! Changing guidelines slowly!

Also, here's a sneak peak of some DSED research I showcased at the @ParamedicsUK Research Conference! https://t.co/kT4uAA9yvI

[Royal College of Emergency Medicine @RCollEM]

📢 New National Pre-Alert Guideline

RCEM and @AACE_org have released a new national guideline to standardise pre-alert calls between ambulance services and EDs. 📄 Full guideline available now: https://t.co/ULUt583vX2

✅ Updated criteria for pre-alerts
✅ Use of ATMIST format
✅ Concise communication
✅ Importance of training for all staff

This is about improving collaborative working to create safe patient handovers. Please share with your colleagues and teams!

All position and advisory statements: https://t.co/HnVJpYAwlA

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@Sam_060996 Well done pal x

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

What an amazing week this has been!

[Resuscitation Council UK @ResusCouncilUK]

Of the 40,000 resuscitation attempts carried out by emergency services in the UK each year, fewer than 10% survive.

Let's change this. Learn CPR and be ready to act.

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@EthanHPara Thanks brother - we'll have to catch up soon x

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

Beyond proud to have received this today 🥂🚑🩺

[Andy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚑 @ParaAndy90]

If you have ever wanted evidence of when someone requires a full immobilisation, without collar of course, this is it 👇👇

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@ParaAndy90 @TheResusRoom Yeah I saw this when I had a read. I thought the wording was interesting, but glad to know someone else has the same thought process as me. I'd typically be titrating unless there is already a respiratory arrest/peri arrest situation present.

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

Finally caught up with the @TheResusRoom's podcast on Opioid Overdose - recommend everyone listening to this as it reinforced but also challenged many things in my head about these jobs. In terms of RCEM's naloxone guidelines, would there be any legal ramifications for 1/2

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@heli_med_james Should we be routinely using GCS on medical patients (sepsis etc) as opposed to ACVPU?

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@Sam_060996 Sam!!! How's things? Just done a very basic google search into "the pit crew" and there does seem to be some papers. Depending if you're university lets you do primary research (mine didn't), it'd be good to survey people. Do it man, be the research that isn't out there!

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@NatashaMDay @geoff3889 Sorry for jumping on. We were taught about the benefits of breastfeeding -> oxytocin -> helps with third stage of delivery and less chance of PPH etc etc

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Just a reminder that you can resuscitate a shock patient infinitely faster through an 18-gauge IV in their vein than a 14-gauge IV in the sharps container

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@EthanHPara @DrCheskes Hey dude! Absolutely, send me a DM 😁

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

Excited to have finished the first draft of my dissertation. Had some really exciting conversations with pre-hospital practitioners about this topic recently. @DrCheskes thank you for mentoring me and here's to the exciting future🥂

[Luke Houston @LukeHouston06]

@MedCasey @DrCheskes thanks dude! It's been a rollercoster and it's not over yet.