Vertex Health Advisory

Continued Professional Development (CPD) for Healthcare Professionals

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Today, on Emergency Services Day, we recognise the incredible people who answer the call when others need them most 🚑🚒🚓

From those on the frontline to the teams working tirelessly behind the scenes, thank you for your courage, compassion, professionalism and commitment 💕

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

#Leadership

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Leadership is not about Control.

It’s about bringing out the best in a team.

#Leadership #Safety #Empowerment #LevelHierarchy

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Between June 2025 and June 2026, 82% of Martha’s Rule calls relating to acute deterioration would not have triggered escalation based on the early warning score alone.

Yet within this group:

➡️ 13% resulted in a transfer of care
➡️ 56% resulted in another change in treatment

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

“But the ECG is normal…”

That sentence should never be the end of the assessment.

An ECG is a snapshot of cardiac electrical activity at one moment in time.

→ Reassess the patient
→ Repeat the ECG
→ Compare it directly with the previous trace
→ Look for dynamic changes

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Good leadership doesn’t just create calm. It creates the conditions for others to perform.

An empowered team doesn’t just perform better when things are going well.

It helps bring the whole team from frazzle back into flow when things aren’t 🙏

#ClinicalLeadership #Human

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Observations provide data.

Clinicians provide interpretation.

- A blood pressure of 110 mmHg doesn’t exclude shock
- An SpO₂ of 98% doesn’t guarantee adequate ventilation
- A normal HR doesn’t rule out serious illness

Our duty, is to ask ‘Why?’

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

A reassuring SpO₂ does not always mean a reassuring patient.

• Respiratory rate, depth and pattern
• Chest movement and air entry
• Work of breathing, fatigue
• Consciousness
• ETCO₂

Sometimes the most dangerous deterioration is the one hidden behind a normal number 🚩

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

The more experienced we become, the easier it is to stop questioning what we know.

Experience gives us pattern recognition. It makes us faster, more confident and more decisive. But those same strengths can quietly become vulnerabilities.

'Could I be wrong?'

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

“What physiological problem am I trying to solve with PEEP, and what might I be compromising by using it?”

Every ventilator setting has a consequence.

PEEP is no different ☺️

#ARDSnet #NAEMSP #BTS #ICS #FICM #Mechanical #Ventilation

[Royal College of Paramedics @ParamedicsUK]

Vacancy: Clinical Trainer (Coastal) - Wales and West at RNLI

Full info👉https://t.co/I2zfLtIkch

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Remember - to be Human 💚

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

A pre-alert is far more than a phone call - it’s an important step in a patient’s care.

💭 What’s one thing you’ve learnt - either providing or receiving pre-alerts - that has improved your practice?

#Communication #Handover #CivilitySavesLives #PatientCare #EmergencyCare

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Clinical excellence is built through deliberate reflection.

Team resilience is built through psychological safety.

Neither, happen by accident.

#Leadership #CriticalCare #Paramedic #PreHospitalCare #HumanFactors #ClinicalLeadership

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[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Because the strongest teams aren't built by exceptional individuals.

They're built by leaders who make everyone around them better.

#CriticalCare #Leadership #HumanFactors #PreHospitalCare #CriticalCareParamedic #FOAMed #ClinicalLeadership #Teamwork #HealthcareLeadership

[Vertex Health Advisory @VHA_Education]

Great performance rarely comes from working harder - it comes from creating bandwidth.

- Bandwidth to think before acting.
- Bandwidth to anticipate rather than react.
- Bandwidth to communicate clearly under pressure.

Flow isn’t accidental. It’s engineered.

#HumanFactors