CASE 41 Incident A 30-year-old male has sustained a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the face on a remote rural property. Relevant information ▪ Aircraft: Fixed-wing turbo prop aircraft. Two-stretcher capacity…
CASE 40 Incident A bus has rolled over in the late evening some 450 km (280 miles) from your base location near a remote mining community. Initial reports suggest multiple…
CASE 37 Incident A 17-year-old patient with newly diagnosed schizophrenia requires retrieval from a general hospital to a secure adolescent psychiatric unit. The patient has been violent and has required…
CASE 24 Incident Following a fall from farm machinery, a 40-year-old female has intracranial haemorrhage and spinal injuries and requires retrieval from a general hospital. She is intubated and ventilated…
CASE 35 Incident A 49-year-old man with chronic renal failure requires transfer to a tertiary centre for renal dialysis. He has missed his last two dialysis appointments. He has a…
CASE 23 Incident A 56-year-old woman has collapsed and presented by ambulance to a general hospital without on-site neurosurgical support. On admission, she was deeply unconscious and required intubation and…
CASE 32 Incident An 11-year-old boy has been camping with his parents and now presents to a small nurse-led rural clinic with a history of 6 hours of increasing respiratory…
CASE 30 Incident A 49-year-old man has been admitted to a general hospital ICU without cardiothoracic surgical expertise 2800 km (1740 miles) away. He has a past history of bicuspid…
CASE 31 Incident A 39-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes and chronic renal impairment has presented to an isolated 110-bed rural general hospital 1100 km (690…
CASE 48 Incident During a regular pre-hospital and retrieval service staff meeting, a number of recent incidents and events were discussed. Included were: • The death soon after arrival at…
