Prehospital Blood Transfusion: A Cross-Sectional Study of Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine Services across Australia & Aotearoa-New Zealand.

Background: The frequency and type of prehospital blood product delivery across Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand is unknown. This study aims to describe transfusion practice across different services in the two nations, as well as identifying potential barriers to the carriage of blood products.

Methodology: Prehospital and retrieval medicine services operating teams of doctors, specialist paramedics, and/or flight nurses out of specialty bases across Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand were sent a standardized questionnaire regarding their base characteristics and their current blood transfusion practice.

Consensus views on the optimum training curriculum for advanced minimally invasive surgery: A delphi study.

Introduction: There has been a wide uptake in the use of Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS) globally across different surgical specialties. Whilst evidence exists for a structured training curriculum for basic laparoscopic surgery, there is little agreement on a complete framework for an advanced MIS training curriculum, defining the essential elements of the curriculum including the optimal assessment methods. The aim of this study is to obtain a consensus on the essential elements of a training curriculum for advanced MIS.

Improving the quality of weekend handover at Yeovil District Hospital.

"Handover of care is one of the most perilous procedures in medicine" (British Medical Association, Safe Handover, Safe Patients). The system in place for weekend handover at YDH was deemed disorganised, unstructured and frequently missing key pieces of information, leaving the on-call Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctor with only vague jobs and management plans. Baseline surveys demonstrated that junior doctors felt the system was inadequate, potentially compromised patient safety and increased their stress levels.