Professional Emergency Care

Our next BAA and AEA CPG Update course will be running 1 - 2 October.
Contact [email protected] to find out more or to book your spot.

Our next Occupational Health and Safety Representative course will be running 21 August.

Contact [email protected] to book your spot.

Happy 9th of August

It is very sad news that one of our frequent flyers , medic George de Rock died tragically doing what he loved doing! Running early on his 47th birthday. His big smile and gentle nature will be missed .

Condolences to his family and loved ones.

https://youtu.be/X-uHhQUsbSE?si=XKkRpj2lMtMc-ZQc

Your Defib Pads Are in the Wrong Place Are you placing defib pads correctly? Anterolateral (AL) and antero...

The best kind of learning happens when you get to practice doing it yourself.
Our Medical First Aid, (STCW A-VI/4-1 & A-VI/1-3), delegates got to practice putting bandages and splinting legs on the course yesterday.

https://www.pec.co.za/medical-first-aid-including-elementary-first-aid-%E2%80%93-stcw-code-a-vi-4-1-and-a-vi-1-3

A brilliant initiative we should all support! Especially if you can run👏🏻

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT):

Tachycardia treatment
For narrow complex tachycardia
Modified Valsalva Manoeuvre

Using this sequence improves the success rate for the Valsalva manoeuvre from 17% to 43%
(defined as the patient being back in sinus rhythm at one minute) in the REVERT trial.

https://www.thebottomline.org.uk/summaries/icm/revert/

Loads of fun and learning! More instructors for Namibia in the pipe line 👏🏻