PHEC Archives • St.Emlyn's

Ambulance Service New South Wales’ Great Sydney Area HEMS – St.Emlyn’s on tour 2013

By Simon Carley / April 3, 2013

What can an emergency department learn from a helicopter retrieval team? Following a 2013 visit to Sydney HEMS, Simon Carley reflects on multidisciplinary briefings, rehearsal, active listening at handover and shared leadership across challenging pre-hospital environments.

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JC: HEMS doesn’t work – at least not for the Dutch

Does this Dutch study show that helicopter emergency medical services fail to improve trauma outcomes? The 2013 journal club challenges that interpretation, examining patient matching, baseline physiological differences and the importance of understanding the trauma system behind the aircraft.