Rural Doctors

It’s on! This latest from SAPMEA…   Dates Confirmed for Masterclass in Rural Practice Friday 15th & Saturday 16th November 2013 on Kangaroo Island sapmea is holding a Masterclass in Rural Practice on Kangaroo Island, with a focus on teamwork, hospital based equipment, checklists, protocols and a higher level of management of psychiatric, medical, airway, trauma and obstetric […]

I had the opportunity to speak to Mr Mark Wilson – a consultant Neurosurgeon and HEMS doctor in London, with a background including NASA, Everest Base Camp, rural medicine and significant input into medicine in the developing world. Mark and I were at University College Hospital in London many moons ago. As times have moved

Bit of a discussion on twitter this week re: the ideal contents of a doctors bag. I’ve posted about this before on the old KI-Docs.com site (now surpassed with move to WordPress and Mike Cadogan’s revamping of the site as KIDocs.org) Here’s a 25 min video on the doctors bag – mostly from the perspective

So this week was Gynae list – a good list for me as I get to put in spinals +/- GA for vaginal hysterectomy and intubate everyone having a laparoscopy – much better than the hum-drum sedation lists for colonoscopy…also delighted to hear that RDASA president Dr Scott Lewis has nominated as the GP-Anaesthetist rep

I’ve updated the previous ‘Rural Hospital Theatre Checklists’ which many users have downloaded. I was delighted to hear from a rural GPA colleague that this resource was being recommended by instructors on one of the EMAC courses… It is, of course, a collation of mostly previously published guidelines, adapted for local use on Kangaroo Island.