Dr Pete Davis
Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, and Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Presents:
Synopsis:
Hypothermia is an environmental injury that may occur in isolation, or it may complicate or coexist with complex polytrauma. A study of the Danish Praesto Fjord boating incident will demonstrate how triage of multiple severely hypothermic casualties, with or without circulatory arrest, to appropriate facilities can achieve dramatic positive outcomes. We will then consider how these principles are applied in common environmental scenarios that may generate severe accidental hypothermia.
Bio:
Pete qualified in medicine in 1987 and has served in the UK Defence Medical Services ever since, apart from a nine-year sabbatical in New Zealand during which time he trained in helped to produce three children, trained in Emergency Medicine and explored the Southern Alps.
He is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Retrieval Medicine, working between the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (a component of the Scottish Specialist Transfer And Retrieval Service – ScotSTAR) when not deployed on Regimental duties.
A climber and skier since his teenage years, these sports have taken him on adventures throughout the world and continue to foster his passion for Wilderness Medicine.
Presentation references:
Wanscher M, Agersnap L, Ravn j et al. Outcome of accidental hypothermia with or without circulatory arrest. Experience from the Danish Præstø Fjord boating accident. Resuscitation 2012:83:1078-1084
Truhlář A, Deakin CD, Soar J et al. European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015 Section 4. Cardiac arrest in special circumstances. Resuscitation 2015:95:148-201
McCormack J, Percival D. Letter to the Editor. HEMS Advanced trauma team retrieval of a patient with accidental hypothermic cardiac arrest for ECMO therapy. Resuscitation 2016;105:e23