CoROM cast. Wilderness, Austere, Remote and Resource-limited Medicine.

This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Sam Slishman, who is a medical doctor and inventor of the Slishman traction splint and other medical kit.

https://slishmanpressurewrap.com/

This week, Aebhric O'Kelly talks with Dr Giulio Novarese, an operational medic for many different tactical organisations. They discuss lessons learned in operational medicine over the decades and discuss teaching for Dr John Hagmann and Deployment Medicine International.

This week, Aebhric talks with Cole Shaver and Greydon Ratushny, who are Critical Care Paramedics working in British Columbia, Canada.

They discuss their experience in the MSc Austere Critical Care programme and what it is like to work as a paramedic in Canada.

This week, Aebhric talks with Krissie Stiles who is a nurse focusing on burns casualties. She has great advice for the Remote Medic on how to assess and manage the burns casualty in austere environments.

Aebhric OKelly talks with Burjor Langdana about Wilderness and Expedition Dentistry.

wildernessdentistry.com

Aebhric talks with CJ Malcolm, who runs the EMS in Gunnison, Colorado. CJ has introduced blood and blood products to his department. He has also pushed for ultrasound and prolonged field care training.

The Gunnison paramedics are practising in extreme austere environments.

Aebhric talks with Alfredo Leal, who is a critical care flight paramedic working in Saudi Arabia and who will be defending his master's thesis for the Austere Critical Care programme.

Aebhric O'Kelly talks with Dr. Jørgen Melau from Norway, who has published research on cold weather medicine. They discuss the difficulties of operating in cold environments and the options available to keep a casualty warm.

This week, Aebhric talks with Ella Corrick, MD PhD, about her experiences working prehospital, on mountain rescue teams and her work with the College on the postgraduate faculty.

They discuss the best way to treat blisters.

Aebhric mentioned the Valkyrie Extraction System, which can be found here.

https://www.britishrescue.com/pages/the-valkyrie-extraction-system

This week, Aebhric O'Kelly talks with Dan Taylor, who graduated from the CoROM Remote Paramedic programme and has deployed to Ukraine many times, as well as Iraq and other interesting places.

Dr Will Smith is a pillar in the wilderness medical community and military medicine. He has been part of the Wilderness Medical Society and the Special Operations Medicine Association. He recently joined the CoROM faculty and will teach the MSc Austere Critical Care.

This week, Aebhric talks with Darren Torpey who works on the search and rescue helicopter in NW Ireland.

Darren is an alumnus of the Remote Paramedic programme and used his training to get a job on the SAR helicopters.

He talks about his experience working in difficult and austere environments and how he uses prolonged field care daily.

This week, Aebhric talks with Nick, who is a doctorate-level paramedic who works in Gunnison, CO, where he provides extended EMS care in austere environments.

Aebhric OKelly and Dennis Jarema do a deep dive into improvised medicine. This recording was 2.5 hours long. So, we split it into two podcasts.

This is part 2, where we discuss Circulation emergencies and Prolonged Field Care improvisation.

Aebhric OKelly and Dennis Jarema do a deep dive into improvised medicine. This recording was 2.5 hours long. So we split it into two podcasts.

This is part 1, where we discuss Massive Haemmoraghe, Airway and Breathing improvisation.

Stay tuned next week for part 2.

This week, Aebhric talks with Brian Foy, former Marine Recon, who became a paramedic and is currently working in Kenya teaching TCCC and Remote Medicine to the military and for civilians.

This week, Aebhric OKelly talks with Nick Dillon, a masters-level paramedic who has worked as a Remote Medic in many environments. He has been a country manager for several organisations and is an academic lecturer for a paramedic university in the UK.

Nick and Aebhric discuss their history together and some of the extraordinary deployments that Nick has been part of.

This week, Aebhric OKelly talks with Adam Gent who runs the Real First Aid programme in the UK. Adam focuses on getting the basic medical skills practiced to perfection.

He teaches PFC at the BLS level and created the HEROTIME mneumonic for the Prolonged Field Care skills.

• Hygiene
• Elevation
• Rehydration
• Observations and Records
• Testing and Diagnostics
• Infection
• Medication
• Environmental

This week, Aebhric recaps the 2023 podcast analytics and how we grew and developed this year.

Top Five Podcasts of 2023

1. MSc Paramedic Practitioner with David Fifer (57)

2. Tropical Medicine Update with Jason Jarvis (48)

3. Ukraine Aeromedical Evac team from Norway (42)

4. Life as an Offshore Medic (66)

5. PFC for EMS with Dr Tom (68)

This week, Aebhric talks with Arne Dierlich who is a German offshore paramedic working on the windfarms in the North Sea. They discuss the requirements for the job and why Prolonged Field Care needs to be in the required curriculum.

This week, Aebhric talks with Simon Puparelia, a 3rd year BSc Remote Paramedic student. They discussed his experience at the Kibosho District Hospital, which is 14km up Mount Kilimanjaro.

Aebhric set this placement up specifically for SOF medics but found it a perfect place for the advanced paramedic practice.

This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Tom Mallinson about their published article focusing on prolonged field care for EMS. In the UK, it is common for ambulances to sit in the car park of the hospital for six hours waiting to hand over their patient to the A&E department.

Their research shows that the PFC protocols would be beneficial for paramedics.

This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Theo Aslanidis who runs the PhD programme for the College. They discuss research for paramedics and healthcare providers working in remote and austere environments.

This week, Aebhric talks with Tim Cranton, who has worked as an offshore medic for 25 years. They discuss his daily routines and what medical emergencies he can expect.

Tim talks about what courses and training are required to get a job as an Offshore Medic.

Aebhric talks with Dr John Quinn, who has been going to Ukraine since 2001. He has worked in Eastern Ukraine since the war started in 2014. John was instrumental in getting blood approved by non-doctors in Ukraine for prehospital use.

This week, Aebhric O'Kelly and Jason Jarvis discuss current tropical disease outbreaks in the US and Europe.

The discussion went over time, so we broke the talk into two parts.

Part 1: Malaria and Dengue (dropped last week)

Part 2: Leishmaniasis and Schistosomiasis

This week, Aebhric O'Kelly and Jason Jarvis discuss current tropical disease outbreaks in the US and Europe.

The discussion went over time, so we broke the talk into two parts.

Part 1: Malaria and Dengue

Part 2: Leishmaniasis and Schistosomiasis will be dropped next Friday

This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Winston de Mello about pain.

This week, Aebhric talks with Vlad Chumachenko, who came for our Austere Emergency Care course in Pretty Bay, Malta. They discuss the training that Ukraine medics receive before heading to the front. There is a need for prolonged field care training at all medical levels.

This week, Aebhric talks with Price Parker, 18D and Eirik Holmstrom about their experiences in Malta whilst teaching at the College. They talk about the Intensive Care for Austere and Remote Environments (ICARE) course that ran this week. They also talk about the history of the Knights of St. John and how that lineage can be found in Special Forces Medicine.

This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Edit Gara, MD PhD about how to assess and manage the paediatric patient who is dehydrated.

This week, Aebhric talks with Zack Andrews, who works in the Human Remains Retrieval team based in Hawaii. He is an active-duty SOF medic and is currently going through the MSc Austere Critical Care programme.

Aebhric talks with Professor David Fifer, who is campaigning for a master's level paramedic role similar to the PA and NP role but solely prehospital.

This week, Aebhric talks with Patrick Wenger about his experience working for Air Zermatt. They discuss The Big Sick conference held in Zermatt each February.

They talk about Patrick's experience working offshore on a boat.

This week, Aebhric talks with Dr Slaven Bajic, who teaches our Austere and Prehospital Ultrasound course. He is from Slovenia, where he runs the A&E department at his local hospital.

The College runs Prolonged Field Care courses in many countries. This week, Aebhric OKelly chats with Dr Tom Mallinson and Eirik Holmstrom on the challenges of running the AEC course in Europe.

Aebhric gives a review from season one with listener analytics and gives an overview of what is coming in season two, which drops next Friday.

Tim Cranton chats about the benefits of lifelong learning, keeping a CPD portfolio and having a reflective practice.

This week, Aebhric talks with Michael Klopper, who is on the faculty of CoROM. Michael is pursuing his doctorate in healthcare, focusing on artificial intelligence.

Michael has also been instrumental in pushing austere medicine forward in Africa. He is one of the first FAWM graduates in South Africa. He is the first to earn the new WP-C board certification in Africa, and he has designed the AHEMS module of the new Africa Diploma of Mountain Medicine being designed by CoROM.

Aebhric talks with Dr Gara about the burned paediatric patient and how to assess and manage this whilst working in remote, austere and resource-limited environments.

Aebhric OKelly talks with Dr Tom Mallinson about his experiences working as a BASICs doctor and a GP in rural Scotland. They discuss how they met over ten years ago.

Tom is on the CoROM faculty and runs the Year Two cohort for the BSc Remote Paramedic Practice programme.

Tom recently published a chapter in the new Primary Care for Paramedics textbook.

https://www.google.de/books/edition/Primary_Care_for_Paramedics/SB7HEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tom+mallinson+primary+care+paramedic&pg=PA2017&printsec=frontcover

Aebhric chats with Jason about his path from 18D to becoming a tropical medicine specialist. They chat about the aetiology of the CoROM Field Guide and his experience living in Malta for a year whilst teaching for the Remote Paramedic programme.

Aebhric and Csaba talk about critical care teaching for resource-limited environments. They discuss the original concepts of the critical care programmes the College offers. They discuss how the MSc Austere Critical Care programme began.

Dr Csaba also discusses research and why paramedics and nurses must be on the cutting edge of enhancing remote medicine.

Aebhric OKelly and Eirik Holmstrom talk about the Combat Medical Care conference this week held in Ulm, Germany. Both faculty gave presentations as well as two workshops.

Eirik talked about the Medic Tool documentation system. https://www.p3dmedics.com/.

Aebhric talked about tropical medicine and how it affects the operational medic.

Additional CoROM faculty were there. Dr Mike Shertz, Dr Winston de Mello and Patrick Wenger attended the conference.

Tim takes a deep dive into the signs and symptoms of rabies and the clinical management in remote and austere environments.

Aebhric talks with Dr Edit Gara MD PhD about the challenges found whilst providing neonatal transport.

Aebhric OKelly talks with Dr Francis Sakita and Jason Jarvis, who just finished teaching two back-to-back Tropical Medicine Courses for the Norwegian military. They discuss their experiences teaching tropical medicine and having two days off in Oslo between the two courses.

Aebhric OKelly talks with Dr. Haakon Asak and Bjørn Eidissen from the Norwegian military. They run the aeromedical evacuation team for EU missions. They provided weekly evacuations for the Ukrainian military and civilian casualties. Historically, they have provided evacuation flights for the Turkey earthquake victims. They have also had many deployments to the Middle East.

Aebhric talks with Dr Francis Sakita, Tanzania's first board-certified emergency medicine doctor. Francis has been on the CoROM faculty for over five years. He is head of the Emergency Medicine Department at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. He oversees our BSc Remote Paramedic students as they go through their clinical rotations.