Back into #USAR training for 2024. Great to review some airway techniques with the techs and jump down a few holes. Always a challenge playing medic in the austere environment

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Hato Hone St John

After our TheResusRoom episode on refractory VF, it’s interesting to read that Hato Hone St John have adopted both DSD and withholding adrenaline into their clinical practice guidelines (not that I think our episode influenced this decision of course!

Eyes are on you now NZ 👀

After 2.5 months of no nights due to settling in with our real life tamagotchi it is back to the DDNN roster. Nice to be back supporting staff and patients on the ECHO unit. Haven’t missed it but still nice to be back.

PS fatherhood is pretty cool 😁

Interesting perspective.

Pseudo PEA IMO could be one of the biggest areas of gain in the pre-hospital setting. There is some interesting work on POCUS occuring in this area but in the short term what could we change?

Watch this space.

Hot day at work? Don’t mind the ol work supplied rehydration apparatus

#ParamedicLife
Hato Hone St John

First International Critical Care Paramedic Group meet of 2024 yesterday with impressive representation from UK, South Africa, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Tasmania and the US! Planning started for the second international conferance in Jan 2025! Australasian College of Paramedicine (ACP) College of Paramedics

Watch this space. Any ideas what you want to see?

This whole DSD thing makes paperwork a little bizarre. 40 shocks in an arrest is counter intuitive but with DSD the numbers get up there.

Unfortunately we were unsuccessful this time around. Will be interesting to see how the statistics go with it being rolled out in

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Question for the prehospital masses.
If you need to gain entry to a property does your service routinely require police to be present?
We do not require it yet most crews will not progress without.

Morning ‘health and safety’ meeting for Red Watch. Rare to have attendance this healthy! Didn’t last long 😂

#ParamedicLife

Privileged to be presenting at the region burns forum on Hato Hone St John capacity and burn guidelines. Great to network and share the prehospital story which is often forgotten but can hold some of the biggest impact on patient outcome

Clinical education day playing with the new defib and duel sequential defibrillation. Will be interesting to see how this goes in the real world

Not bad for a night shift. Spoilt with 4 hrs on station.

Come work in Ōtautahi and enjoy the views and down time as well 😁

Always nice to be paid to hang off things and play.

#paramedic
#HAZMAT
#USAR

Hot chocolates are the perfect finish to a rubbish block. It’s the small things to boost moral 😁

Our retired ambulances are ready in Ukraine 🇺🇦 🚑

Six now have camouflage paint while the seventh remains white and will become a mobile health unit. Each one has been given a te reo Māori name 💛

📸 Tenby Powell 

#StJohn #TeWikiOTeReoMāori #MāoriLanguageWeek #NewZealand

3 weeks of insane training with a 72hr scenario to top it off in the pooring rain has resulted in the awarding of the green helmet.

Honoured to now be medic for NZL1 the 🇳🇿INSARAG USAR Heavy Rescue Team

‘Feel the fear, but do it anyway’

#USAR #Paramedicine #INSARAG

Great feeling to be able to tick off one of my final professional goals. Bring on 3 weeks of amazing teaching by the Fire and Emergency New Zealand team.

Who would want to work in an office when you can be a #Paramedic doing cool shit instead 😁

Tough start to the morning in Ōtautahi. Writing up paperwork with a view on a cold winters morning 🥶