Tim Cranton talks with Jennifer White who is the Medical Officer onboard the Picton Castle, a Sail Training Vessel, which is a 3 masted Tall Ship. She is one of our REMT students who has decided to get back to the basics.
Aebhric talks with CoROM faculty who taught the Austere Emergency Care course in Norway in March. Tim Cranton, Patrick Wenger and Dr Tom Mallinson have earned their AEC instructor rating. Eirik Holmstrom earned the Course Coordinator rating. And Aebhric is the first Course Director located in Europe.
Aebhric and Winston discuss current updates about catastrophic bleeding and massive haemorrhage.
Tim chats with Dr Tom Mallinson and Patrick Wenger about their clinical practice and the courage to make the right decisions. Tom works as a BASICs prehospital doctor in rural Scotland. Patrick is a master's level paramedic who works on the Air Zermatt medical team. Both have years of experience to draw from as they discuss some difficult decisions that they have had to make in their clinical practice.
Sam Coffman Bio Sam Coffman (RH[AHG], MSAOM) began his medical education in the military as a U.S. Special Forces Medic (aka Green Beret medic) in 1989. Prior to this six-year duty as a special forces medic he had already become highly interested in herbalism as a method to provide health care in remote regions with limited medical supplies, and he was able to use much of his special forces medic training to uniquely integrate the infrastructure and needs of field medicine with his own growing b...
Aebhric talks with Dr Edit Gara about croup and asthma which are exacerbated during the winter months.
Dr Winston de Mello does a deep dive into hyperoxia.
LTC Corrie is a veterinarian with the US Army stationed in Germany.
Aebhric talks with Fredrik about ultrasound for remote, austere and resource-limited environments. Dr Granholm wrote the textbook called Austere and Prehospital Ultrasound.
Dr Gara talks about how a young, athletic footballer can collapse in cardiac arrest after being tackled.
Aebhric and Winston discuss why lactate is important for the Remote Medic.
Tim Cranton talks with Lazlo Hegedus who is a PSD medic about his experiences working in austere environments
Dame Claire Bertschinger runs the Diploma of Tropical Nursing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Before joining the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Claire worked as a training officer in the Health Division of ICRC Geneva . She has worked in more war zones than most special forces medics. She has a tremendous amount of knowledge that will be valuable for the Remote Medic. The College has five faculty who have earned their DTN or are in the current DTN ...
Dr Gara is a cardiologist who has worked on ambulances and is head of our postgraduate programmes at the College.
0000 head burns discussion 0230 AKI secondary from head burn 0500 alternative pain management options 0840 Wound Cleaning 1100 burn dressings 1900 Role of topiceuticals 2200 Feeding 2800 Palliation and range of motion 3030 Escharotomy/Fasciotomy 3300 Wound vacuum 3700 Final thoughts
Aebhric and Dr Winston de Mello discuss the assessment and management of the burned casualty in remote, austere and resource-limited environments. Using the CABC patient assessment algorithm, they discussed what the first responder could do for the casualty at each point in the assessment system. This is part one of a two-part burns episode. Next week, we will discuss the prolonged field care aspects of burns.
Sylwester Winiarski was a member of the Polish Airborne and Air Assault forces and a member of their emergency rescue team and recce platoon. He has worked as a civilian paramedic in Kandahar for the UN and has most recently been involved with training Ukrainians in PFC and Chemical weapons medical procedures. He is an author and advocate of promoting mental health awareness, where he works with others providing counselling services for PTSD.
Phil Keating is an offshore wind farm medic, former military medic and now our newest faculty member in the College. Aebhric talks with Phil about his experiences in Antarctica, teaching on the ICARE course and other topics in austere medicine.
Dr Gara talks about pulmonary embolism. She is a cardiologist based in Budapest and leads CoROM's postgraduate faculty department.
Martyna Abratkiewicz is a degree paramedic from Poland who has lived in Malta for almost ten years. She talks about prehospital healthcare in Malta and Europe. She also discusses her experience on the MSc Austere Critical Care programme that the College runs.
Aebhric talks to four of his faculty who discuss their military service and how it has changed their lives. They also talk about service as a concept that is not owned by military service but also civilian service to their community.
Tim Cranton talks about the need for preparation whilst discussing some tidbits from his own history of being a deployed medic.
Dr Edit Gara MD PhD discusses haemodynamic monitoring and the drugs available for treatment.
Dr de Mello discusses the history of TXA and how it can be beneficial for the Remote Medic.
Tim Cranton is one of the faculty members of the College. He has been working on North Sea oil rigs for over a decade. He talks about what it takes to become an offshore medic. He gives some advice for anyone looking to work on oil rigs. And he talks about some of his most challenging medical cases.
Paul Loos and Dennis Jarema, both 18Ds, teach at the schoolhouse in Fort Bragg. They started the Prolonged Field Care Working Group along with Dr Sean Keenan. Paul and Dennis have completed their first year of the MSc Austere Critical Care programme. They discuss their experiences during the first year and what they have learned during the programme.
Dr Edit Gara discusses Acute Coronary Syndrom, STEMI, NSTEMI and unstable angina.
Aebhric O'Kelly interviews two third-year BSc Remote Paramedic students about the paths that led them to join the CoROM programme. Jim first came to the College for the Remote EMT course seven years ago. He was working for BBC and needed more medical training for the locations he was going. Simon wanted to branch out from his corporate job and learn something very different from his day-to-day job. Listen to their experiences whilst going through the Remote Paramedic Practice degree programme.&n...
Dr Winston de Mello discusses pulse oximetry and its use during the Covid pandemic. Dr de Mello is an anaesthetist and pain specialist. Reference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35798377/
Dr Francis Sakita is CoROM faculty and runs the Emergency Department in Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania. Each month he will present a clinical case from KCMC, located at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. Today, Dr Francis talks about a patient presenting with difficulty breathing and shortness of breath.
