Greater Sydney Area HEMS

Hello and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest. This week, we are very excited to deep dive into defibrillation. Join us as we talk through the physics of defibrillation, what is needed to get defibrillation as good as it can be, and what to do when defibrillation is simply not working. We are delighted to be joined this week by Michael Heller. Michael is a paramedic by...

Hello and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest. This week, we are joined by a Sydney local – Prof Jimmy Chien, as we talk about PE in cardiac arrest. Jimmy is a Senior Staff Specialist (Senior Consultant) in Respiratory Medicine, with a sub-speciality focus on pulmonary embolism. Jimmy has been fundamental in the creation of the PE emergency response team at his tertiar...

Hello and welcome back. This week, we are joined by Dr Felipe Teran from New York, discussing trans-oesophageal ECHO (TOE) in arrest. Felipe is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. Additionally, Felipe is a clinical scientist and educational leader specifically focused on the utility and application of TOE during cardiac arrest. Indeed, Felipe is...

Hello and welcome back. As we continue to discuss cardiac arrest, this week we talk with Prof Laurie Morrison from Toronto about: How to integrate cardiac arrest research into an existing systems How to gather and interpret physiologic data during arrest – particularly ventilation data – and what to do with this data to optimise arrest care How to be a leader in this research field Prof Morrison i...

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest. This is the second half of our chat with Dr Hans van Schuppen from Amsterdam as we put the P back into CPR. In today’s episode, we discuss amongst other things: Lung recruitment intra-arrest The impact of tidal volumes during arrest To PEEP or not to PEEP during arrest How to use ventilation to prevent acidosis during arr...

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest. This is episode 3, and today it is all about ventilation during arrest. It is time to put the P back into CPR. Ventilation has been neglected in cardiac arrest management, and this two part episode focuses on how ventilation can not only help achieve a ROSC but the importance of ventilation too in achieving neurologically...

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest. In the second episode of this series, we talk to Dr Tommaso Scquizatto from Milan, Italy. Tommaso is a Doctor, researcher and innovator in cardiac arrest, resuscitation, and emergency critical care medicine. He works in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, where...

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest. This is the first in a series of podcasts dedicated entirely to cardiac arrest, the physiology driving the clinical presentation and how we can more effectively use physiological principles and basic science to underpin clinical care and research.  In this week's episode, we have the privilege of talking with Dr Paul Rees...