Prehospital Care: An International Comparison of Independently Developed Training Courses.

Objective: Prehospital and retrieval medicine (PHRM) occurs in a complex work environment. Appropriate training is essential to ensure high standards of clinical care and logistic decision making. Before commencing the role, PHRM doctors have varying levels of experience.

Successful endotracheal intubation following a failed first attempt during aeromedical retrieval.

Introduction: First attempt intubation success is used by many prehospital services as a marker of quality and safety. An increasing complication rate is associated with repeated intubation attempts. The aim of this study was to identify changes to intubation technique following a failed intubation attempt.

Endotracheal Intubation for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest by an Australian Air Medical Service.

Objective: Traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) has been associated with poor outcome, but there are survivors with good neurological outcome. Treatment of hypoxia plays a key part in resuscitation algorithms, but little evidence exists on the ideal method of airway management in TCA.

Methods: LifeFlight Retrieval Medicine is an aeromedical retrieval service based in Queensland, Australia.

Effect of music on mealtime disruptions.

Background: People with learning disabilities can disrupt mealtimes with non-cooperative, aggressive and self-injurious behaviours that challenge other people to tolerate and manage them. These behaviours appear to arise because the proximity of other people, and the heightened activity and noise of a dining room, causes anxiety and agitation.

Aim: To examine how delivering calming background music via headphones affected anxiety-driven behaviours that disrupted mealtimes.