Pre-hospital Rural Emergencies Masterclass

Join us for this one day, hands on, full on Masterclass managing pre-hospital rural scenarios.

This Masterclass aims to provide participants the ability to work in a resource poor environment, often as the only attendee, to ensure the safe retrieval of a patient. Examples of scenarios a doctor might attend to include car accidents, farm equipment accidents and gunshot injuries. 

In remote and rural South Australia, a retrieval team can take time to attend the scene of an accident and they can often benefit from the inclusion of a doctor on the team. Sometimes the Doctor is the first at the scene and it's vital they are adequately skilled to manage a pre-hosptial emergency situation. 

Doctors need to be trained how to manage these situations and be adequately resourced. 

This Masterclass aims to train doctors to have the necessary skills required manage a patient in an emergency environment.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the Role of the Rural Generalist in the pre-hospital space.
2. Understand the principles of team management and support.
3. Learn and Reinforce a core suite of pre-hospital skills
   1. IV/IO Access
   2. Pain Relief / Procedural Sedation
   3. Airway management in challenging environments
   4. Management of Major Bleeding
   5. Chest Decompression
   6. Management of Traumatic Arrest
   7. Patient Extrication

4.  Introduce Sandpiper and the Sandpiper Bag

5.  Understand the importance of a team approach to pre-hospital trauma.

6.  Understand the safe approach to a pre-hospital scene.