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April 26th, 2013 | .Newsletter | Comments Off | 
Trauma Doctors by Channel 5
Channel 5 is featuring a major new documentary about the London HEM’s trauma doctors including Expedition & Wilderness Medicine’s Medical Director Amy Hughes and Extreme Medicine Conference speaker Anne Weaver
Trauma Doctors documents the on the spot medical decisions and procedures that can reverse the dying process in critically injured. The battle for a patient’s life starts within minutes of their injury when London’s Air Ambulance arrives at the scene of the incident, delivering advanced medical procedures to the roadside, and continues with their hospitalisation and subsequent treatment at The Royal London Hospital.
Heading up the team is Dr Gareth Davies, one of the UK’s leading trauma specialists, Medical Director of London’s Air Ambulance and Emergency Medicine Consultant at Barts Health NHS Trust. From helping patients in road traffic collisions to working on the aftermath of the 7/7 London Bombings, he and his team work at speed to bring the patient back to life.
Dr Gareth Davies said: “Trauma Doctors will give viewers an insight into the medical care provided by London’s Air Ambulance. We only attend the most serious trauma cases in London and are renowned throughout the world for our medical excellence. Most people do not realise that we deliver the emergency room to the patient so, by giving people a snapshot of what we do, we hope that one day everyone in the UK will receive similar levels of care.”
Barts Health Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine Dr Malik Ramadhan who also appears in the programme said: “The opening of the new Royal London Hospital last year has allowed us to combine one of the UK’s leading medical and nursing trauma structures with the facilities to provide world class care. In addition, the new trauma system in London means that severely injured patients are only taken to hospitals with the expertise to deal with a very complicated group of patients and The Royal London was one of the first hospitals in the UK to develop a formal trauma system. This programme gives an excellent insight into the thought processes of doctors looking after these patients.”
London’s Air Ambulance is on-call 24 hours a day to respond to life and death medical emergencies within the M25, treating almost 2,000 patients a year. The Royal London Hospital treats 2,800 trauma patients a year.
In the UK trauma accounts for around 18,000 deaths a year and covers a multitude of complex and life threatening injuries caused, for example, by vehicle collisions, industrial accidents and assaults, all of which are profiled in the series.
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April 11th, 2013 | .Newsletter, Extreme Medicine EXPO, Extreme Medicine EXPO Boston | Comments Off |
Polar Medicine course in New Zealand and ski field medic jobs
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April 5th, 2013 | .members, .Newsletter | Comments Off |
Diving Medicine in the Maldives
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March 27th, 2013 | .Newsletter, CME Training | Comments Off |
Focus on Diving & Marine Medicine course and Polar Medicine in New Zealand
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March 18th, 2013 | .Newsletter | Comments Off |
Course update and dates for your calender…
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March 13th, 2013 | .members, .Newsletter | Comments Off |
Latest EWM news
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November 15th, 2012 | .members, .Newsletter | Comments Off |
Jungle Medicine Costa Rica next up, Antarctica Medical Conference 2013 dates announced
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October 26th, 2012 | .members, .Newsletter | Comments Off |
Harvard hosted Extreme Medicine Conference website goes live…
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October 9th, 2012 | .members, .Newsletter, Extreme Medicine EXPO Boston, International 'World Extreme Medicine Conference & Expo' | Comments Off |
Medic needed for Ranulph Fiennes Antarctica Expedition
Veteran polar explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, will take on one of the last remaining polar challenges by attempting to cross Antarctica in winter – the coldest journey on Earth – with five colleagues and with the support of the Commonwealth and a number of sponsors.
— POSITION FILLED —
On 6 December 2012, on board the expedition’s South African ice-strengthened research ship, ‘SA Agulhas’, the expedition team – led by Sir Ranulph – will leave London , bound for Antarctica. Their aim is to complete ‘The Coldest Journey’ – the first-ever trans-Antarctic winter expedition. The Coldest Journey will also attempt to raise USD10 million for Seeing is Believing, a global charitable initiative to fight avoidable blindness. During their sea voyage, the team will undertake a number of scientific tasks to provide unique data on marine life, oceanography and meteorology. Using the very latest technological innovations, this epoch-making journey will pave the way for a new dawn in Antarctic, year-round exploration.
On 21 March 2013, the equinox, the six expedition members will begin a six month journey to reach the Ross Sea. Their route from the Russian base of Novolazareskaya (‘Novo’) to Captain Scott’s base at McMurdo Sound – via the South Pole – will test the limits of human endurance. During this six month period the expedition team will travel nearly 4,000 kilometres, mostly in complete darkness in temperatures as low as -90°C. The expedition team will have to be entirely self-sufficient and there will be no search and rescue facility available, as aircraft cannot penetrate inland during winter, due to darkness and risk of fuel freezing.
The post is unpaid, essentially without support from the outside work but is one of the last great expeditions and certainly one of the most significant of this decade
If you are seriously interested, have the necessary experience and a free 12 months please contact Mark Hannaford at Expedition & Wilderness Medicine mark@expedition-medicine.com and we will forward your application.
Applications should include a full CV – please only apply if you consider yourself a strong contender for this post
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Mountain Medicin Course – Nepal
Antarctic Medical Conference with National Geographic
September 27th, 2012 | .members, .Newsletter, polar medicine | Comments Off |
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