SandpiperAus

Sandpiper Australia is a charity established to raise funds to support delivery of prehospital care to rural Australians

Info at

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

Australia is a vast continent with well-documented tyranny of distance

With increasing rurality, less available resources

Ambulance may be a remote area nurse in a clinic troopie...or volunteer or paramedic crew

Limited resources, treatment ceilings common

A solution for Oz?

[Tim Leeuwenburg @KangarooBeach]

A rural responder network for Australia?

Tell me why I am wrong, please. A thread.

Ping @stjohnnt @stjohn_wa @acrrm @acem @QLDambulance @nswambulance @ambulancetas

[Rural Doctors Foundation @rural_doctors]

Hell of the West is a murky 2km swim, a burning 80km cycle and a 20km hot as hell run.

Show your support by sponsoring our team members who are competing to raise funds for Rural Doctors Foundation.

https://t.co/c8suP74V5l

#hotw2023

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

Looking forward to 2023 and supplying more #SandpiperBags to rural communities to help narrow the #traumagap in #ruralhealth Australia. Thanks to support from @rural_doctors @ACRRM @RuralDoctorsAus - get in touch if need a bag from the charity https://t.co/RvB3amdpaN

[Dr Marian Dover @DoverMarian]

A visionary Doctor I know introduced a roster wherein FACEMs & Emergency Adv Trainees had to do 1day/month in a smaller rural hospitals of the network.

The effect was rapid.
No requests for transfer denied. Camaraderie & respect for rural peers grew.
#MedTwitter @ACEMPresident

[SimonJudkins @JudkinsSimon]

This makes so much sense. Trying to establish a similar model at Echuca ED… it makes a huge difference…#Collaboration #Respect

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

Many thanks to @rural_doctors and other supporters of the @SandpiperAus charity - helping to narrow the #traumagap in rural Australia by supplying prehospital kit to rural clinicians.

Donations are tax deductible & help save a life

[Rural Doctors Foundation @rural_doctors]

Dr Alex was a recent recipient of a Sandpiper bag, thanks to the foundation @NAB. This will help Alex to treat patients in critical situations. Help us provide more of these lifesaving kits to rural communities. https://t.co/HxrFVnC2wD #donate #ruraldoctorsfoundation #givelife

[Rural Doctors Foundation @rural_doctors]

Rural Doctors Foundation has launched its Christmas appeal seeking funds to provide emergency trauma kits to support those living in rural communities.

Donate today.

https://t.co/YbyyG6T1GB

#donate #ruraldoctorsfoundation

[Tim Leeuwenburg @KangarooBeach]

Proven in highlands of Scotland, ⁦@Sandpiper_Trust⁩ bags are now available for use in Australia via charity ⁦@SandpiperAus⁩

Packed with kit for use by trained clinicians to ‘value add’ to local ambos or deliver care before retrieval arrive https://t.co/sQQMnnhlNE

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

CEB

[Cliff Reid @cliffreid]

If there is a cardiac arrest in the operating theatre, who should team lead?
A. Surgeon/proceduralist
B. Anaesthetist
C. Operating theatre nurse
D. EM or ICM physician
E. Don't care but blame Anaesthesia

[Erin Hawkey she/her 🌈🩼😷 @ErinHawkey]

#yourpostcodematters (less) with @SandpiperAus 🙏🏽❤️

[Tim Leeuwenburg @KangarooBeach]

Live in a rural location or heading bush for an adventure?

Help ensure that medical help is there when needed.

Rural Docs Foundation @rural_doctors supports @SandpiperAus charity to provide lifesaving kits to rural communities

Read more & donate here https://t.co/sQQMnnzv1M

[Tim Leeuwenburg @KangarooBeach]

https://t.co/sQQMnnzv1M

[Tim Leeuwenburg @KangarooBeach]

Providing emergency kits to rural communities for use by appropriately trained clinicians can help narrow the #traumagap in Australia

Encouraging folk to make a tax-deductible donation to ⁦@rural_doctors⁩ Rural Docs Foundation ⁦@SandpiperAus⁩ https://t.co/sQQMnnzv1M

[Tim Leeuwenburg @KangarooBeach]

Important work by @rural_doctors to promote @sandpiperaus

UK has BASICS
NZ has PRIME
South Australia has RERN

None of the other States in Oz have formal rural responder networks yet. Sandpiper charity aims to provide standardised kit to rural clinicians to use in a crisis

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

Thanks @rural_doctors for promoting Sandpiper Bags full of life-saving equipment to be used by appropriately trained & equipped rural clinicians in rural Australia

Helping to close the #traumagap in rural & remote Australia

https://t.co/mKsDnKp2Yy

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

not forgetting our friends who work for retreival services such as @RedOzRetrieval or @RFDS_CO_EGMMRS etc

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

And of course there are some docs who should already HAVE a bag through work with SA RERN or similar gigs such as RFDS

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

Moist of all, thanks to @rural_doctors foundation who have recently sponsored five fully-equipped bags for trained-regs and are looking to help develop local responder schemes in remote Oz

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

..and still more docs in the running for a chance to win a @sandpiperaus bag @acrrm #rma22 bag

[SandpiperAus @SandpiperAus]

Some stiff competition in the race to win a @sandpiperaus bag at @acrrm #RMA22