Greater Sydney HEMS shares frontline insights from one of Australia’s leading prehospital and retrieval medicine teams. The podcast explores advanced trauma care, critical care transport, human factors, and decision-making in high-risk environments. Each episode captures real operational experience from clinicians working across helicopter emergency medical services, aeromedical retrieval, and major incident response — blending practical lessons with the reflective, evidence-based mindset that defines Sydney HEMS’ global reputation. Built for critical care doctors, paramedics, and prehospital professionals seeking to sharpen judgement and teamwork under pressure.
Best saved for after the ward-arrest episode, this one helps when VF keeps returning or will not terminate. It separates recurrent from refractory ventricular fibrillation, reminds you to check truly lateral pad placement, and keeps the focus on compression fraction, ventilation, early intraosseous access, and ECPR or cath lab thinking.
Action beats gadgets in this cardiac arrest debrief. The episode keeps the focus on high-quality manual CPR, capnography, pad position, and defibrillation vector, while reminding prehospital teams not to overestimate mechanical CPR or ventilation devices when the basics have not been optimised.
During CPR, numbers can mislead. A high arterial pressure does not guarantee forward flow, so pair the arterial trace with capnography and watch for oscillations; a square capnogram suggests airway closure or poor recoil and should trigger recruitment breaths and reassessment.
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