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The Sandpiper Trust
The Sandpiper Trust, a Scottish Charity, was set up in memory of Sandy Dickson by his parents, family and friends. The primary aim of the Trust is to ensure that all Rural GPs in Scotland are provided with essential emergency medical equipment and resources once they have undergone specialist training courses and gained certification from BASICS Scotland. For further information on the work of the Sandpiper Trust, please go to www.sandpipertrust.org.

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Scottish Infection Prevention and Control Education Pathway (SIPCEP)
A clear staged pathway of contemporary HAI education to enable staff and students to continuously improve their knowledge and skills around Infection Prevention and Control (IPC).
This pathway will provide flexible access to learning for staff as appropriate to their role and adopts a modular structure. The content is contemporary and suitable for wide multi-professional clinical and non-clinical audiences, in all health and social care settings. The pathway will comprise three layers – Foundation, Intermediate and Improvement.
Find out more on the NES website.

BASICS Scotland

5 days ago

Mary chats to us about the interface between the emergency 999 services and the day to day problems associated with drugs and addiction Top 3 tips 1) By understanding why someone may use substances, the importance of our use of language and knowledge of what services are available to support we can help people into a journey of recovery and stop preventable drug related deaths. 2) Harm Reduction is not about encouraging drug use, but allows people to use drugs in a safer way. 3) Take Home Naloxone saves life’s, you can’t recover if your dead! By carrying and providing a THN kit, we can keep people alive, create connections and help people to treatment and support services to help them into a journey or recovery. BiographyMary Munro is the clinical effectiveness lead for drug harm reduction in the North of Scotland, for the Scottish Ambulance Service. Mary came to the Scottish Ambulance Service with experience in various substance use settings including: research, education, third sector and clinical inpatient and community nursing roles. People who use substances can often be seen and treated by society and health services as “less than” human, and we all have a part to play in changing these attitudes and cultures. ... See MoreSee Less

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BASICS Scotland

5 days ago

BASICS Scotland Podcasts - Latest Episode - Mary Munro - Drug harm reduction and the naloxone - mailchi.mp/f6f972b7e7e1/basics-scotland-podcasts-latest-episode-paul-savage-benefits-of-realistic... ... See MoreSee Less

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BASICS Scotland

2 weeks ago

Pete talks us through the definition of damage control resuscitation and the application of this concept to critically injured patients in the pre-hospital setting. The discussion ranges from the practicalities of delivery to novel therapies sitting on the horizon. Top 3 tips: Remember that the classic ABC algorithm has morphed into CABC and that C stands for the control of catastrophic haemorrhage. This has to be immediate and concurrent with managing the airway, breathing and circulation.Nail your IV lines! If a red team is on the way but you are on scene, you may be the one who has the best chance to place the IV cannula which is going to facilitate further resuscitation. Place it and make sure it is really secure. You can extend the classic algorithm from "ABCDE" to "CABCDEF" where “F” stands for forward planning. So immediately you are activated and en-route, start planning ahead and consider what other services you may need. If on scene you recognise a severe derangement in physiology activate the red or HEMS team as appropriate; the earlier these teams and the receiving facility receive patient information - the better they are able to allocate their resources. Biography: 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. ... See MoreSee Less

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