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Challenging Cases in Pre-Hospital Care

GBP £10.00

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Matt Edwards and Jim Walmsley join us for a webinar to discuss their most diverse range of challenging pre-hospital clinical presentations.

During this webinar, you will have the opportunity to learn valuable insights from two experts in pre-hospital care. They will share their experiences and strategies for overcoming the challenges of pre-hospital care, including how to adapt your thinking to overcome sub-optimal presentations and circumstances.

Additionally, they will discuss some of the fundamental issues unique to pre-hospital care, such as weather, human factors, and environment, and how these can affect care and lead to stressful conditions.

Finally, they will share mitigation strategies they have employed to offset these factors and provide high-quality care in difficult circumstances.

This webinar is a must-watch for anyone looking to expand their knowledge and enhance their skills in pre-hospital care. Available to purchase on-demand for either a one-off payment of £10.00 or alternatively you can sign up for the World Extreme Medicine Membership to gain access to this webinar and all our other e-learning content.

Intended Learning Outcomes

In this session you will learn:

  • Methods of adaptive thinking to overcome sub-optimal pre-hospital presentations and circumstances.
  • Examine some of the fundamental issues unique to pre-hospital care (weather, human factors, environment) that can affect care and lead to stressful conditions.
  • Mitigation strategies that Matt and Jim have employed to offset these human factors and external conditions..

Matt Edwards, an Academic Fellow in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Kings College Hospital, London, is also a HEMS Physician with Kent Surrey Sussex Air Ambulance and the Polar Medicine course director for World Extreme Medicine.With extensive experience working in pre-hospital care, he has held positions as a HEMS Registrar with London’s Air Ambulance, a Flight Physician with AMREF Flying Doctors, Nairobi, and a Medical Officer with the British Antarctic Survey.

Jim Walmsley, a specialist paramedic in critical care, has spent the last nineteen years specialising in pre-hospital critical care. With additional outdoor qualifications in climbing, kayaking, and the rope access industry, he obtained his carnet as an International Mountain Leader in 2001 and has led expeditions for various Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in and around Europe since 1996. Having completed an MSc in clinical research and a PgDip in critical care, he now resides in the Southeast of England.

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