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Back to A: Why we developed AIRWAY+
Throughout my career, I have got out of more trouble, and probably saved more lives, through meticulous attention to the ABCs than through high-acuity, low-occurrence procedures. That is not to diminish the importance of the difficult things we occasionally have to do. HALO procedures matter precisely because, when they are needed, they may be lifesaving. […]
Patients Do Better When Services Integrate Better
Healthcare is full of boundaries. Between hospitals. Between specialties. Between teams. Between the clinicians who stabilise a critically ill patient and those who retrieve them. Patients, of course, don’t recognise any of them. One of the things we’ve enjoyed most about developing the ResusPro Workshop has been seeing it become a place where different parts […]
HALO Procedures Need Teams
HALO Procedures Need Teams. Resuscitative thoracotomy is one of the very few true HALO procedures that every resus room team needs to know and practise. It is high acuity, low occurrence – and when it is needed, there is very little time to work out who does what. That’s why we don’t teach it as […]
The Environment Is Part of the Training
This is Bay 3 at ResusPro. There’s nothing particularly dramatic happening. But almost everything in this picture is there for a reason. A clock you can see. A difficult-airway algorithm where you might actually need it. A GlideScope ready to use. Suction. Ventilation. Syringe pumps. Equipment organised and labelled so that people can find it […]
A Result Is Not an Intervention
Blood gases are everywhere in Emergency Medicine. We take them early. We repeat them. We discuss the pH, base excess and lactate. But getting the result is not the same as understanding it and doing something about it. At ResusPro, our simulated blood gas analyser produces results like this during scenarios. You ask for a […]
Safe Emergency Transitions
One of the challenges of Emergency Medicine is that we have to move critically ill patients. Ambulance trolley to ED trolley. ED trolley to CT table. And back again. Imaging can be a game changer. We aim to get our major trauma patients through trauma CT within 30 minutes of arrival – and sooner when […]
Emergency Blood Means Emergency Blood
On our courses, delegates are often surprised by just how rapid a rapid transfusion can be – when the whole system works. When planning our real resus room, we posed a simple question: How long should it take between deciding that a shocked trauma patient needs blood and the blood actually flowing? Our answer: 60 […]
Fidelity Is a Tool
For years, like most centres, we used expired prescription-only medicines (POMs) in training: old adrenaline minijets, leftover ampoules, out-of-date stock. It felt realistic. But when we built ResusPro, we paused. There are real issues. POMs are tightly regulated in supply, storage and disposal. Some drugs damage manikins. Using expired medicines subtly normalises unsafe practice. And […]
