Environmental — Archives — General BroadCAST

Diving Emergencies

All diving represents a hazard, as humans we're not designed to live under water. The deeper divers go and the longer they dive for, the greater the potential risks. Although the bends or decompression sickness, arterial gas embolisims and other diving related emergencies arent the most common presentation to emergency care clinicians. We thought it would be good to revise this medical presenation.
In partnership with our colleagues at HM Coastguard we've developed this CPD podcast. We talk to a Deepwater technical dive instructor from purpleturtle diving, and a dive doctor from DDRC healthcare.

With thanks to Toni from www.purpleturtlediving.com/
and Felix from www.ddrc.org/

Breathing, Critical Care, Emergency Care, Exposure, EnvironmentalJoshua BarkerOctober 11, 2023Diving, The Bends, Decompression Sickness, Oxygen, Divers, Water, Drowning, GasComment

Human Factors

Patient safety should be the key aim at the heart of any healthcare system, including the NHS. Yet we know that every single day, patients come to avoidable harm as a result of errors and mistakes. Human Factors and CRM have become increasingly common schools of thought after the tragic Elaine Bromley case and the great work coming from the clinical human factors group.
This month we look at the Human Factors at play in a pre-hospital RTC case study and consider how ambulance clinicians and first responders might be affected by these. We discuss Startle and Suprise, Amigdyla highjack, Bandwidth, Leadership and heirarchies within teams, communication skills and graduated language.

RTC, Environmental, Human Factors, SafetyJoshua BarkerJuly 15, 2023Human Factors, CRM, Bandwidth, RTC, Safety, Leadership, Startle, SupriseComment