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HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #7. Dr Stephen Hearns - Peak Performance
August 5, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minG'day, and welcome back. Pre-hospital clinicians are used to working under pressure. Teams work in often austere environments, with limited resources caring for some of the most severe patient pathologies at their most…
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HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #6. Dr Matt Hooper (part 2) - Emergency Last Aid
July 19, 2026 · 45 minHello and welcome back. This is part two of our chat with Dr Matt Hooper, continuing our conversation on emergency last aid. In this episode, we discuss the hows and whens involved when informing a family of their loved one's death, as…
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HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #5. Dr Matt Hooper - Emergency Last Aid
July 8, 2026 · 44 minG'day, and welcome back. In today's episode, we are delighted and privileged to be joined by South Australia's Dr Matt Hooper. The practice of medicine - including pre-hospital medicine - often focuses on life preservation. But, as acute…
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HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #4. Damage control resuscitation with London HEMS
June 26, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minG'day and welcome back. Damage control resuscitation - what is it, why should a pre-hospital provider do it, what does it look like in real life, and what are the results. These are but some of the questions asked in this episode of Dr…
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HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #3. ECMO...in trauma???
June 14, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minG'day and welcome back to the podcast. ECMO....in trauma? Today, we are talking about a more general emergency medicine / intensive care medicine topic, that of advanced trauma care. It is fair to raise an eyebrow at 'advanced trauma…
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HEMS Debrief - Cardiac Arrest Focus #23, Prof Sheldon Cheskes - Part 2: Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
May 31, 2026 · 34 minG'day and welcome back into part two of our conversation with Prof Sheldon Cheskes from Toronto, Canada. Here we continue our discussion about refractory cardiac dysrhythmias with the Sheldon, the principal investigator of 'The dose VF'…
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HEMS Debrief - Cardiac Arrest Focus #22, Prof Sheldon Cheskes - Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
May 21, 2026 · 43 minG'day and welcome back to the HEMS debrief podcast. We are back with part one of a two part episode with Professor Sheldon Cheskes from Toronto, Canada. Sheldon is a Professor of Emergency Medicine by trade, a clinical scientist and a…
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HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #2. Thoracotomies, Sydney and London in Conversation
April 26, 2026 · 57 minG'day and welcome back. Today, we continue our conversation on pre-hospital thoracotomies. To do this, we have teamed up with Professor Ewoud Ter Avest, an Emergency Physician with the London HEMS service. Ewoud is an author on the…