Barts and the London Prehospital Care Programme are proud to be hosting an array of fantastic speakers over the weekend of the 2017 National Student conference in Pre-hospital Care and Emergency Medicine.
FIRE: Jayne Collins
It is an honour to have Watch Commander Jayne Collins kicking off our conference on Prehospital Medicine against the Elements. Commended in 2015 for her outstanding work in the fire service, Jayne has been seen to go beyond her normal call of duty and is recognised as making an ‘exceptional contribution to the Service and the communities she serves’. As part of the Hereford and Worchester Fire and Rescue Trauma Team, Jayne regularly competes in National Trauma Challenges winning both the 2016 United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO) National Trauma Challenge and the 2016 Irish National Challenge. Each competition demands teams display ‘an extremely high level of talent and skill’ and demonstrating their skills in advanced casualty medical care. With years of experience in the field of firefighting Jayne will talk through a complicated fire and rescue case she was present at, involving a mother and son trapped in a first floor flat. Both casualties were in cardiac arrest when found and both had received burns. Jayne will talk through the team’s response, management on scene and how the fire services worked with ambulance crew before the casualties were transported to hospital. |
WATER: Paul Savage
We are extremely excited to have Mr Paul Savage speak on the topic of water at our conference on pre-hospital medicine ‘Against the Elements’. Following nearly 30 years of search and rescue experience with the Royal National Lifeboat Institute and HM coastguard combined with the latest medical research Mr Savage will give his highly praised talk on the ‘Seven Ways Cold Water Kills’. During his presentation, he will talk delegates through the stages of survival for submersions and immersions casualties, detailing the physiological changes occurring at these times and outlining the immediate and correct medical treatment required in these cases. The talk will dispel common misconceptions that mar people understanding and highlight the crucial factors which effect survival once in the water. Since the age of 17 Paul has been involved in lifeboat services and currently volunteers at Tower Lifeboat in London. With an interest in remote and maritime paramedical medicine Paul the full time Clinical Operation Manager for the RNLI in 2005. He was responsible for the operational medical response of all of the UK and Eire’s Lifeboat crew, Lifeguards and Flood Response teams, as well as the architect and custodian of the Clinical Governance of the RNLI. He advised on all matters casualty care related - from kit carried, casualty care course design to casualty-friendly boat design In December 2013 Paul was awarded an OBE for a complete step change of maritime medicine around the UK. . Since 2014 as a self employed consultant, Paul has a mixed portfolio of pre-hospital medical related work, including Clinical Governance and University Lecturing. Paul is Chairman of the UK Search and Rescue Medical Group that shapes the future and direction of UK SAR medicine, and is a member of the Main Advisory Board and the Training and Standards Board of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital care of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh). He is also an instructor for specialist elite sections of the UK Military. |
EARTH: Dr. Amy Hughes
It is with great pleasure we have Dr Amy Hughes speaking for us on the theme Earth. With a focus on humanitarian and disaster medicine, Dr Hughes will speak about how we provide health care for those affected by humanitarian emergencies. Looking at how medical teams can be most effective in situations of natural disasters, with a view and what necessary infrastructure is required to strengthen the efforts of local health facility and foreign medical teams and other factors like politics, logistics and culture Currently Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester, Dr Hughes has extensive experience in the field of humanitarian and emergency medicine, receiving an MBE for her services in 2015. She has worked as part of the pre-hospital care team for London’s Air Ambulance and Kent, Surrey and Sussex Helicopter Emergency Medical Service; as a retrieval registrar with Careflight and The Royal Flying Doctors, Australia; as well as spending seven month working with MSF in the aftermath of civil unrest in Northern Sri Lanka. In addition, she has also been medical director of remote medical training for the organisation Expedition & Wilderness Medicine and is now heavily engaged in the development of the UK International Emergency Trauma and Medical Registers. A body created to draw together clinicians interested in responding as part of medical/trauma teams to sudden onset disasters and humanitarian emergencies. Dr Amy Hughes is passionate about improving the training and knowledge for health care professionals who wish to work in complex humanitarian environments and we are very proud to have her speaking at our conference to help broaden our knowledge on the subject. |
AIR: Dr. Stephen Rashford
Currently consultant emergency physican and Medical Director of Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS), Dr Rashford is one of Australia’s leading emergency medicine specialists. With more than 20 years experience in aero-medical retrieval, medical assistance and pre-hospital care, and we are extremely lucky to have him speak for us on the topic of Air whilst he is in the country working with London’s Air Ambulance. Dr Rashford has a plethora of experience and publications in a variety of aspects in pre-hospital and emergency medicine and as Medical Director of QAS he maintains standards that ensure the highest level of patient care. Speaking at the conference Dr Rashford will be exploring the scene involving interfacility transfer of critically injured patients in Australia as well as international transfers, looking at the challenges both pose. We will also hear how patients are monitored during such long distance flights and discuss how to spot the signs and premempt deterioration. |