As we move our the podcast onto both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, we are re-posting this episode originally published in March 2024. In this episode, Nat and Alex join Sam to discuss the Sydney PRECARE pre-hospital ECMO trial as it is just getting under way. Focusing on workflows and team integration, Nat and Alex share their experiences, challenges…

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief podcast. This is our focused series on cardiac arrest. Today we have part one of two in conversation with Dr PO Berve from Norway. PO is an Anaesthetist and Pre-Hospital physician from Oslo where he works on the physician response car of the region. PO's research has been absolutely fundamental to …

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, w…

Welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief. We are up to episode 11! Today, we are pivoting towards toxicology. Specifically, we discuss some of the more common toxidromes encountered pre-hospitally, how they cause cardiac arrest, and what providers – in particular pre-hospital providers – may do in order to best resuscitate these patients. In additio…

This is part two of our conversation with Dr Mike Lauria. Join us as Nat and Mike continue to delve into team performance. In this episode, Nat and Mike discuss human factors gold including but not limited to how to accept imperfection and continue to deliver optimal team performance when things are going south, how to instil calm in a team whilst …

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief podcast. Thank you for your patience – I have been taking the long way home from Canada, but am delighted to be back in Sydney and now ready to go with more episodes of our focused series on cardiac arrest. In this part one of two episodes, we are pivoting away from the technical towards human fact…

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…

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 creatio…

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 applicati…

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 …

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…

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 importa…

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 I…