Duncan Scott
Acute Physician, NHS Highland
Presents:
Management of Hypothermic Casualties by Scottish Mountain Rescue Teams
Synopsis:
Every mountain rescue casualty in Scotland is cold and usually wet. Alastair and Duncan will present some cases from recent rescues in Scotland where hypothermic casualties have been treated to demonstrate the current approach. Hopefully this will stimulate discussion around the approach for different degrees of hypothermia and some of the latest changes in management.
Bio:
Duncan Scott is an acute physician in NHS Highland working mainly in Raigmore hospital Inverness in medical high dependency, ambulatory care and the acute medical unit. He also works in Caithness general hospital in Wick providing general and acute medical service there.
He trained in the North of Scotland and Tasmania Australia, with an interest in rural health care. He also has a strong interest in medical education and is currently the deputy director of medical education for NHS Highland. He is vice chair of the society of acute medicine, Scotland and lead for acute medicine in Raigmore.
His wife is a local GP in Aviemore. When not at work he enjoys time in the outdoors, often in the Spey Valley with his three children and dog.
For the last eleven years he has volunteered with the Cairngorm mountain rescue team, and more recently as a BASICS Responder and part of the PICT team in Inverness.