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22/08/2026

Available in 🇦🇺 IntuBlade is making advanced airway capability more accessible.

This is a compact, single-use video laryngoscope built for the airway clinicians actually get — including blood, vomit, secretions and fogging that can compromise the view when seconds matter.

Inside the box:
• Macintosh-style video laryngoscope
• Integrated saline lens-clearing technology
• USB-C connectivity for compatible mobile devices
• No proprietary monitor platform
• Automatic recording and cloud-enabled QA/QI capability

TGA registered in Australia, ARTG ID 529608.
A practical, cost-effective approach to video laryngoscopy for ED, ICU, theatre, retrieval, event medical and pre-hospital teams.
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18/08/2026

1968: a blade, two fingers, and whatever tube was in the bag. No kit, no confirmation, no second chance.

2026: same landmark, same incision — but the equipment finally caught up.

Training both the old-school scalpel-finger-bougie technique and modern surgical airway kits hands-on at the Difficult Airway Workshop, 22 September, Brisbane.
Registration details in bio.

There is more to penetrating trauma than the hole you can see. It’s about the trajectory that may not be immediately obv...
13/08/2026

There is more to penetrating trauma than the hole you can see. It’s about the trajectory that may not be immediately obvious. In May I spoke to attendees at First Aid Show about this topic.

A wound near the chest or upper abdomen can cross compartments, damage the diaphragm, and involve the lungs, heart, great vessels, liver, spleen or major abdominal vasculature. That’s why the “deadly box” matters: think clavicles to umbilicus, across the torso, and always consider where the object may have travelled—not just where it entered.

The other trap? A patient who looks okay can still be bleeding internally. Compensated shock can look deceptively reassuring until the physiology runs out of room to compensate.

Reassess often: mental state, work of breathing, pulse quality, skin signs, respiratory rate and trends—not one “normal” set of obs.

I’ll be unpacking this in my session at NIFAT :

“How much is too much? Blood loss and the stages of hypovolemic shock.”

We’ll follow the body from the first drop of blood to irreversible shock, challenge the dangerous misconception that a well-looking patient is a safe patient, and explore what that should change about the way we teach bleed control.
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Image credit First Aid Show

Three lessons from humanitarian healthcare. Part two. Standing in that camp in Greece, I found out I could set grief sli...
10/08/2026

Three lessons from humanitarian healthcare. Part two.

Standing in that camp in Greece, I found out I could set grief slightly to one side at the loss of a friend in the camp, and keep functioning for the people who still needed me. It felt extraordinary.

One. Say yes before you feel ready.

Two. You don’t know your capacity until it’s tested.

Three. Process what you carry, don’t just carry it. Function, then feel, then debrief.

They apply just as much to starting a business as to a refugee camp.
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These are part of the lessons I share at RESPOND - Prehospital Care RESPOND26 a week ago.
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I’m a botanist by trade. Not exactly training for what came next.Ten years and a month ago I stood in a morgue on the ot...
09/08/2026

I’m a botanist by trade.

Not exactly training for what came next.

Ten years and a month ago I stood in a morgue on the other side of the world, identifying the body of someone who’d become a friend. He was displaced. I’d volunteered in a humanitarian project in Greece for two weeks. I stayed for three months.

Last week I told that story on stage at RESPOND26, in the Creative Careers Stream. A humanitarian health project in a refugee camp in Greece is the reason I became a paramedic. A consultant medical officer pulled me aside and suggested it almost in passing. I didn’t think much of it until a year later when I took it as my escape card from a desk job.

None of it was planned. All of it mattered.

More on what that experience taught me over the next few posts.

06/08/2026

🙏 Big thank you to 6:8 Medical Solutions | FDA Medical Device MFG for supporting our Difficult Airway Workshop at ATMA
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🫁 We will be takATMAyou through the Vortex Approach to the management of a difficult airway all the way through to front of neck access. Come with us and get hands on some very, very novel and high fidelity simulators that we will be revealing.
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Last minute ticket drop! 🎟️ Due to a change in circumstances I have a couple of tickets to RESPOND26 this Tuesday in Bri...
31/07/2026

Last minute ticket drop! 🎟️ Due to a change in circumstances I have a couple of tickets to RESPOND26 this Tuesday in Brisbane, and I want to give them away.

If you’re in the Brisbane area, come join me for a day of inspiration, career pathway ideas, new connections, and a look at some brand new ALS products we’ve registered and are bringing through MyMedEquip. I’m genuinely excited about these.

To enter:
Share this post to your story and tag the mate you’d bring with you.

Winner drawn Sunday at 1800 hrs.

Bring the energy. See you there.

What was meant to be a “routine” domestic violence job on the Fraser Coast became anything but – a young officer critica...
28/07/2026

What was meant to be a “routine” domestic violence job on the Fraser Coast became anything but – a young officer critically injured and one person deceased.

For us, it’s a sobering reminder of how fast things can turn in this work. One minute you’re managing what feels like another everyday call; the next, you’re fighting to save a colleague’s life.

It’s also a moment for us, as a profession, to reflect on how we prepare, equip and support frontline responders for the worst‑case scenarios that can emerge without warning.

Thinking of the officer, their family, and everyone who turned out that day. This is why training, equipment and support for frontline responders isn’t optional – it’s the thin line that has to hold when everything else falls apart.
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⚠️ Did your phone just alert? Public access bleed control is starting to get the attention it deserves in Australia – a...
27/07/2026

⚠️ Did your phone just alert? Public access bleed control is starting to get the attention it deserves in Australia – and I’m glad to be part of that conversation.

I had the opportunity to visit parliament and speak with an office genuinely interested in hearing the case for Public Access Bleed Control Kits. It’s encouraging to see policymakers beginning to look beyond cardiac arrest alone and consider the reality of uncontrolled haemorrhage in public spaces, especially against a backdrop of rising knife crime and deliberate violence.

We’ve done a great job with public access AEDs: they’re highly effective when used, strongly supported by evidence, and widely understood by the public. But they are expensive, require installation, and only address one time‑critical cause of collapse. In contrast, correctly used bleed control kits – containing tourniquets, haemostatic dressings, pressure devices and simple instructions – can be deployed at a fraction of the cost per site, and directly target one of the other leading preventable causes of death: catastrophic extremity and junctional bleeding. International data show that early, layperson haemorrhage control can dramatically reduce mortality in stabbings, vehicle collisions, industrial incidents and mass‑casualty events, often in the same critical minutes before paramedics arrive.

The goal isn’t “AEDs or bleed kits” – it’s AEDs and bleed kits, side by side, wherever people gather.

Bleed Control Kits Australia is gaining momentum, but it will only succeed if it’s driven from both the top and the grassroots. If this resonates with you:

- Write to your local MPs and ask where public access bleed control fits in their community safety agenda.
- Ask your local shopping centre, stadium, school, workplace or transport hub whether they have bleed control kits alongside their AEDs – and if not, why not.
- Start the conversation in your own organisation about including haemorrhage control in first aid training and emergency response planning.

The more we normalise the idea that controlling catastrophic bleeding is everyone’s job, the fewer families will lose someone to a potentially preventable cause of death.

A small thank you from me.For Thank a Paramedic Day, I want to acknowledge the paramedics working, studying, teaching, m...
24/07/2026

A small thank you from me.

For Thank a Paramedic Day, I want to acknowledge the paramedics working, studying, teaching, mentoring, and continuing to show up for people at their worst.

Paramedicine is a profession that asks a lot of people. Long nights, hard decisions, missed moments at home, and the constant responsibility of being ready when someone else’s day has gone badly.

As a small gesture of appreciation, MyMedEquip is offering 10% off storewide this weekend.

Use code: PARAMEDIC10

Thank you to every paramedic out there, on road or off road, clinical or non-traditional, new to the job or years deep.

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