[children's transport group] Re: PICS conference report
- From: dennis kerr <kerrdennis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:26:05 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Ian,
great catching up in manchester last week:
Regarding PPE for rota wing retrieval.
We are going down the line of a two piece suit rather than one piece flight
overalls - the main percieved advantage is that when arriving at referring
hospital you can take of the jacket and not overheat in the neonatal/
paediatric
environment. The material is a nomex/kevlar flame retardant - waterproof jacket
and flame retardant trousers. Price range was resonable around £430 for
complete
suit. (it only comes in green, red or orange colours). We have opted out of
high
visibilty componet - will just put a high vis vest over the top.
The supplier we are looking at is Lojigma international limited. www.Lojigma.com
The contact person is Mr John Duncan Phone +44 (0) 1383 822003
Regarding helmets:
Supplier
Helmet integrated systems LTD
www.helmets.co.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1776 704421
Again we are looking at a multifit size in the Alpha 400 series with coms spec.
Similiar price to what you had mentioned.
regarding footwear
looking at range of boots from SP services
www.spservices.co.uk
I would be interested to hear what other teams who have a flight component;
whether it fixed or rota wing - what PPE do you provide staff and what training
are you offering.
regards,
Dennis
www.paedsretrieval.com
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From: Ian Braithwaite <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, 20 September, 2010 10:58:33
Subject: [children's transport group] PICS conference report
Hello everyone
I thought I'd just mention a few things I caught at the Paediatric Intensive
Care Society conference that might be of interest to others. If anyone else was
there, feel free to chip in!
Dr Steve Marriage (Bristol) has developed a portable ambulance that can fold
away into a box! It is only a shell of the rear compartment, but looks
fantastic
for scenario practise for services that don't have dedicated ambulances. It has
piped gas and power, both of which can be caused to fail for added realism. It
looks like a very neat tool.
Mark Clement (CATS, London) offered up a poster which described qualitative
research documenting interviews with retrieval staff. I found his conversations
about team dynamics and doctor/nurse interactions fascinating.
Dr Dave Rowney (Edinburgh) presented a paper looking at the need for a national
paediatric air ambulance in the UK. He said that in order to get the safest and
most appropriate service, before looking at provision options we needed to
focus
on getting the standards ready for the sort of service we required.
There was a poster by Dr Kathryn Davison (Leeds) which looked at extubating
patients with seizures in the local hospital. She demonstrated that retrieval
of
these patients can often be safely avoided. I think I knew this, but it was
nice
to see data!
Dr Amber Young looked at the issues of fluid management in burns patients. She
described the morbidity associated with excessive fluid intake which is often
due to initial overestimation of burn surface area (BSA). I've had the
replacement fluid calculation of 3-4mL x kg x burn percentage drilled into me
for ages but her service only start fluid replacement at 15% burns, replace
only
2mL x kg x BSA, and aim for urine outputs of 0.5mL/kg/hr. I need to do more
reading!
Regards,
Ian Braithwaite
Senior Transport Nurse
Yorkshire and Humber Infant and Children's Transport Service (Embrace)
+ 44 (0)114 305 3005
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