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The Vortex
A recent concept that has been widely discussed on FOAM sites, as well as at the SMACC conference, is The Vortex (pdf) The Vortex is a simple cognitive aid that can be used in the setting of an...
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“Total Immersion” Simulation…..!!
The Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust (ARHT) works with multiple agencies, including NZ Defence, and has the good fortune from time to time to train alongside these groups. On the 14th May we were...
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Emergency Medicine = Combat Aviation!
There is currently a huge amount of interest in lessons that medicine can learn from aviation, including concepts like CRM and the use of checklists. Efforts are being made to select and integrate...
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Analysing communication errors in an air medical transport service
A recent study published in the May-June 2013 edition of Air Medical Journal analyzed a randomly selected group of quality assurance reports looking for communication errors. Quality assurance reports...
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Human factors in aviation errors – The Dirty Dozen
Following a spate of aviation accidents in the 1980′s and 1990′s, Transport Canada and the aviation industry came up with the aviation ‘Dirty Dozen’ – human factors in aviation maintenance that...
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Karel Habig: To air is human
From The Intensive Care Network – another podcast from the SMACC 2013 conference. This is Dr Karel Habig, Medical Director of the Greater Sydney Area HEMS, discussing how experience from aeromedical...
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A Military Aviation model for Patient Safety?
In the September 2013 edition of the British Medical Journal, Robyn Clay-Williams has published a thought provoking article on the modelling of clinical risk management on civil aviation practices, and...
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Patient safety in helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS): The safety...
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. Albert Einstein. You could be right in thinking that “safety crusaders” are the glass half empty type, right? Those that...
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Checklists – Part 1
By Damjan Gaco, MD, ARHT HEMS Fellow History The origin story of checklists goes as follows: A pilot in the 1930’s stepped off a newly built bomber and said something along the lines of “that is too...
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