North Coast PHEM

Medical training and inter-service exercises for local emergency teams. Endorsed by SWAST & BASICS Devon. Run by volunteers. We depend on your generosity

[Jonathan Search @searchy_boy]

Follow up Question for paramedics and other road crews. When requesting/talking with a critical/enhanced care or BASICS team/responder. Why are you calling them?

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

Texts say we are better adapted to lose heat than conserve it because we evolved in the Serengeti... However, we also tolerate greater hypothermia than hyperthermia... Do these concepts conflict?

[Angus Macdonald @angus_mac1]

Disturbing footage of the consequences when a lorry driver loses concentration. We should redouble our attempts to drive safely... https://t.co/nvKTjQkqXD

[Learn the Heart @LearntheHeart]

Class IC anti-arrhythmic (flecainide, propafenone) if given without AV blocker ➡ 1:1 atrial flutter. See #ECG

[Simon Fleming 🛠 @OrthopodReg]

For those who aren’t familiar with it, this is one of my favourite careers/wellness/self-care concepts.

Find your ikigai. Make a difference.

#TEDxNHS #surgery #HeForShe #HammerItOut #ikigai

[Medicalce @medicalce]

Head Tilt / Chin Lift in real-time MRI scan

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

@Kangaroosteve talking about his work in mountain rescue and teaching medicine to nonmedics. #BASICS2019

[Safeguard Medical @med_safeguard]

It's a busy Friday for the Prometheus sales team today. We are also in Warwick for the second day of the BASICS Annual Conference. Visit our stand to have a chat with one of the team. We look forward to seeing you there! @BASICS_HQ #BASICS2019

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

Do aspiring applicants think they will “fit”?

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

@LeechCaroline: diversity engenders greater effectiveness and suucess within institutions. #BASICS2019

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

@LeechCaroline: diversity engenders greater effectiveness and suucess within institutions. #BASICS2019

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

“Normalisation of deviance” “Closed cadres” “Marking you own homework” “Lord of the Flies”: all attitudes at risk of occurring without external scrutiny #BASICS2019

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

Prehospital RSI more dangerous than in-hospital so governance & safety regimens must be more not less stringent. @DrJonBailey on this morning’s panel... #BASICS2019

[Steve Rowe @Kangaroosteve]

@mark_millins - “if you need to ask if doctors are needed, perhaps you’re not going to understand the answer...” some really insightful comments from a very senior and experienced paramedic #BASICS2019 @BASICS_HQ

[Steve Rowe @Kangaroosteve]

Dr Brendan Sloan is another colleague and friend with a story to tell - you can hear a pin drop. The medical aspects of the Thai Cave Rescue are both fascinating and terrifying #BASICS2019

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

For the old prob of a realistic transfer from live actor into collapse during sim sesh: 2ary examiners can run a facsimile on manikin behind screen: Screen lifts, candidate transfers realtime to manikin simple but clever! #BASICS2019

[Angus Macdonald @angus_mac1]

More dilemmas: trench rescue where risk of rescuers can be catastrophic but the pt declines amputation!
#BASICS2019

[Steve Rowe @Kangaroosteve]

Trench collapse is commoner than you may think - and can be deadly. So much so that @H_S_E have issued guidance to prevent it. https://t.co/S5xiEZ7Y1N @BASICS_HQ #BASICS2019

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

Constraint: lots of types: physcical- sitting on pt , mechanical- hand cuffs seclusion, removal (walking aids) and chemical #BASICS2019

[North Coast PHEM @NorthCoastPhem]

Kirsty Smith: Clinical lead for ethics, Law and mental capacity for LAS on chemical constraint technicalities... #BASICS2019

[Martin Ball @MartinParaUK]

Staircase of behavioural change to influence individuals #BASICS2019