This week, Aebhric O'Kelly and Jason Jarvis discuss current tropical disease outbreaks in the US and Europe. The discussion went over time, so we broke the talk into two parts. Part 1: Malaria and Dengue Part 2: Leishmaniasis and Schistosomiasis will be dropped next Friday
This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Winston de Mello about pain.
This week, Aebhric talks with Vlad Chumachenko, who came for our Austere Emergency Care course in Pretty Bay, Malta. They discuss the training that Ukraine medics receive before heading to the front. There is a need for prolonged field care training at all medical levels.
This week, Aebhric talks with Price Parker, 18D and Eirik Holmstrom about their experiences in Malta whilst teaching at the College. They talk about the Intensive Care for Austere and Remote Environments (ICARE) course that ran this week. They also talk about the history of the Knights of St. John and how that lineage can be found in Special Forces Medicine.
This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Edit Gara, MD PhD about how to assess and manage the paediatric patient who is dehydrated.
This week, Aebhric talks with Zack Andrews, who works in the Human Remains Retrieval team based in Hawaii. He is an active-duty SOF medic and is currently going through the MSc Austere Critical Care programme.
Aebhric talks with Professor David Fifer, who is campaigning for a master's level paramedic role similar to the PA and NP role but solely prehospital.
This week, Aebhric talks with Patrick Wenger about his experience working for Air Zermatt. They discuss The Big Sick conference held in Zermatt each February. They talk about Patrick's experience working offshore on a boat.
This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Slaven Bajic, who teaches our Austere and Prehospital Ultrasound course. He is from Slovenia, where he runs the A&E department at his local hospital.
The College runs Prolonged Field Care courses in many countries. This week, Aebhric OKelly chats with Dr Tom Mallinson and Eirik Holmstrom on the challenges of running the AEC course in Europe.
Aebhric gives a review from season one with listener analytics and gives an overview of what is coming in season two, which drops next Friday.
Tim Cranton chats about the benefits of lifelong learning, keeping a CPD portfolio and having a reflective practice.
This week, Aebhric talks with Michael Klopper, who is on the faculty of CoROM. Michael is pursuing his doctorate in healthcare, focusing on artificial intelligence. Michael has also been instrumental in pushing austere medicine forward in Africa. He is one of the first FAWM graduates in South Africa. He is the first to earn the new WP-C board certification in Africa, and he has designed the AHEMS module of the new Africa Diploma of Mountain Medicine being designed by CoROM.
Aebhric talks with Dr Gara about the burned paediatric patient and how to assess and manage this whilst working in remote, austere and resource-limited environments.
Aebhric OKelly talks with Dr Tom Mallinson about his experiences working as a BASICs doctor and a GP in rural Scotland. They discuss how they met over ten years ago. Tom is on the CoROM faculty and runs the Year Two cohort for the BSc Remote Paramedic Practice programme. Tom recently published a chapter in the new Primary Care for Paramedics textbook. https://www.google.de/books/edition/Primary_Care_for_Paramedics/SB7HEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tom+mallinson+primary+care+paramedic&pg=P...
Aebhric chats with Jason about his path from 18D to becoming a tropical medicine specialist. They chat about the aetiology of the CoROM Field Guide and his experience living in Malta for a year whilst teaching for the Remote Paramedic programme.
Aebhric and Csaba talk about critical care teaching for resource-limited environments. They discuss the original concepts of the critical care programmes the College offers. They discuss how the MSc Austere Critical Care programme began. Dr Csaba also discusses research and why paramedics and nurses must be on the cutting edge of enhancing remote medicine.
Aebhric OKelly and Eirik Holmstrom talk about the Combat Medical Care conference this week held in Ulm, Germany. Both faculty gave presentations as well as two workshops. Eirik talked about the Medic Tool documentation system. https://www.p3dmedics.com/. Aebhric talked about tropical medicine and how it affects the operational medic. Additional CoROM faculty were there. Dr Mike Shertz, Dr Winston de Mello and Patrick Wenger attended the conference.
Tim takes a deep dive into the signs and symptoms of rabies and the clinical management in remote and austere environments.
Aebhric talks with Dr Edit Gara MD PhD about the challenges found whilst providing neonatal transport.
Aebhric OKelly talks with Dr Francis Sakita and Jason Jarvis, who just finished teaching two back-to-back Tropical Medicine Courses for the Norwegian military. They discuss their experiences teaching tropical medicine and having two days off in Oslo between the two courses.
Aebhric OKelly talks with Dr. Haakon Asak and Bjørn Eidissen from the Norwegian military. They run the aeromedical evacuation team for EU missions. They provided weekly evacuations for the Ukrainian military and civilian casualties. Historically, they have provided evacuation flights for the Turkey earthquake victims. They have also had many deployments to the Middle East.
Aebhric talks with Dr Francis Sakita, Tanzania's first board-certified emergency medicine doctor. Francis has been on the CoROM faculty for over five years. He is head of the Emergency Medicine Department at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. He oversees our BSc Remote Paramedic students as they go through their clinical rotations.
Tim Cranton talks with Ming Ng, who just finished our RPP104 Remote Paramedic module. She talks about her experience as a CoROM Paramedic student and why she enrolled on our BSc Remote Paramedic Practice programme.
Aebhric talks with Tom and Ella, who are doctors working in the rural areas of northern Scotland. They discuss their experiences at the conference and what they learned from the workshops. They discuss how they will incorporate their learning1 into their rural practice.
Aebhric and Dr Gara do a deep dive into FOU specifically for work in austere environments.
Aebhric talks with Rhod Jordan about teaching in remote and austere environments and teaching those who will be working in these difficult areas. They discuss tricks and tips for medics who are just starting out on their teaching adventure.
Aebhric talks with Teija Pietiläinen from Finland, who has worked for the ICRC in austere environments as a nurse for many years. She talks about her recent experiences in Sudan. She also talks about the ICARE course she took in Malta last summer.
Dr Winston de Mello and Aebhric discuss severe TBI and how to deal with this whilst deployed in austere environments.
John Clark has stepped into the leadership role within the College. Aebhric has stepped down into an advisory role. They chat about the long history between them and the collaboration between the IBSC and CoROM. They will have a joint exhibition table during the Special Operations Medical Association conference in May. Why not stop by and say hello and congratulate John on his new position?
