CRITICAL LEVELS - THE PODCAST -
“Critical Levels” is a podcast dedicated to having critical conversations in paramedicine created for paramedics, by paramedics, with a Canadian and local bias.
The opinions and discussion within the podcast are meant as educational material for paramedics, and it is not meant to establish a standard of care – please do not deviate from your local medical directives.
We hope to release monthly episodes, but we are in this together – please reach out with ideas for guests and topics.
In addition to the podcast, which will be availiable across all podcast platforms, this website serves as a central location for episode summaries and resources.
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Episode 36 | Wilderness Medicine & Hypothermia – Matthew Smith
On this month’s episode, we chat with Matt Smith about wilderness medicine.
As we shift from a high resource to a low resource setting, there are 3 main concepts to consider:
– Ideal to real
– High risk to low risk
– Stable to unstable
These concepts are important as we shift our practice and prepare ourselves.
For this patient context, we need to focus on the things we can’t replace, and learn to manage that.
Our approach to these patients need to be algorithmic, and focus on doing the basics well. Two mnemonics (H-E-M-P; A-B-C-D-E) are presented to help with our approach.
Lastly, hypothermia assessment and management is discussed.
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