Management and movement of the hyperthermia patient in austere settings
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Meeting Room 4
| Friday, October 25, 2024 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:05 AM |
| Meeting Room 4 |
Speaker
Mr Kerryn Wratt
Managing Director
RescueMED
Management and movement of the hyperthermia patient in austere settings
Abstract Overview
The management of the hyperthermic patient is especially challenging in the resource poor settings rural generalists may find themselves. In this workshop we will explore a very practical approach to the assessment, management and movement of the hyperthermia patient with focus on the out of hospital setting.
The participant will have the opportunity to actively manage a simulated patient as part of a team. Teaching will be evidence based and include patient cooling and packaging techniques that facilitate ongoing care and patient monitoring whilst moving towards definitive care.
Skills covered will include:
> Patient assessment
> Airway management (basic to advanced)
> Active cooling
> Patient Packaging
> Patient monitoring and management "on the move"
> Giving and receiving clinical handover in the out of hospital context
The participant will have the opportunity to actively manage a simulated patient as part of a team. Teaching will be evidence based and include patient cooling and packaging techniques that facilitate ongoing care and patient monitoring whilst moving towards definitive care.
Skills covered will include:
> Patient assessment
> Airway management (basic to advanced)
> Active cooling
> Patient Packaging
> Patient monitoring and management "on the move"
> Giving and receiving clinical handover in the out of hospital context
Biography
Kerryn is a Critical Care Flight and Wilderness Paramedic primarily based in Nelson, New Zealand. Prior to this he spent 2 years as Clinical Support Officer and then Critical Care Flight Paramedic Intern in Tasmania as well as 20 years in Victoria in as a MICA paramedic in a wide range of locations and roles in remote settings.
Kerryn has extensive experience teaching wilderness medicine internationally, developing and leading courses in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and Papua New Guinea through his company, RescueMED. Kerryn lead the establishment of St John Papua New Guinea’s Ambulance Special Operations Team in preparation for the APEC leaders’ summit in Port Moresby in 2018 and has played an important role in the establishment of the Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Society (AWEMS) as the peak body for the development of wilderness medicine across Australasia where he is the current president.
