Remote Emergencies
Thursday 19 November 2020, 22:00 AEDT (19:00 AWST)
Presented by:
James Sherriff – Royal Flying Doctor Service
Alex Galonski – Backpacker Medics
In rural and remote areas there are additional challenges to pre-hospital and hospital care due to the long distances required to travel and the resources that may be required. Paramedicine is evolving and there are more Community Paramedics and Paramedic Practitioners along with Industrial Paramedics entering the health care arena. Remote locations present their own challenges.
This CPD covers the challenges encountered when an emergency occurs in a remote area from a clinical perspective as well as the input of Telehealth and the role that they play. It highlights the importance of inter-agency work and collaboration.
The Royal Flying Doctor service will be presenting on the unique challenges they face within a case study, highlight how telehealth plays an important role in the communication chain and the role of interagency interactions with the remote patients.
Backpacker medics are a volunteer group that provide a platform for Paramedics and other pre-hospital workers to engage with the world of humanitarian work. They have predominately been based in Nepal however have done a lot of disaster relief work. They will present on the challenges they face, case studies and give an insight into paramedicine with limited resources. Click Here for more information.
Thursday 19 November 2020, 22:00 AEDT (19:00 AWST)
The webinar will be held online via Zoom.
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James Sherriff joined the Royal Flying Doctor Service in December 2019 as General Manager Health Service Delivery and is currently the COVID-19 response lead. His focus is on patient care, staff satisfaction, service development, solution finding for external stakeholders, safety and quality. James is an inclusive leader and team builder whose areas of health, not for profit and commercial expertise include strategic reviews and turnarounds, financial management, project management, process re-engineering and systems development. James’ strong set of values, commitment and passion for people and his broad set of technical skills have been key contributors to the team successes he has enjoyed throughout his career. James brings more than 20 years of experience in diverse senior leadership roles across private, not for profit and sport industries on two continents. Having qualified as a Critical Care Paramedic in Johannesburg, South Africa, James then transitioned to the commercial world and worked for a printing and packaging company progressing to Chief Operating Officer, growing the organisation, driving innovation and increasing the net profits whilst developing the personnel. The Organisation quadrupled in size and he left when immigrating with his family to Australia in 2009. During the same period James continued practicing of Paramedicine by volunteering on most weekends working as a single critical care responder for the State services. In 2009 he joined St John Ambulance, from 2013 to end of 2017 he was the General Manager of Metropolitan Ambulance, the longest serving in the position to date. Here he was responsible for leading a workforce of 800 staff and responsible for the Ambulance emergency services within the metro area including the two Rescue helicopters. He then worked at Royal Perth Hospital working on strategic projects to further develop the hospital before moving across to the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Since 1995 James has also represented his country as a Rugby union referee, travelling across the country and internationally. He continues this today as a citing commissioner representing the State, Australia and World Rugby.
Alex Galonski currently sits on BPM's key leadership committee, assisting the organization with logistics, training and recruitment. Alex has been with BPM for 3 years, deploying to Bangaldesh and sulawesi.
At present, Alex is employed as a career Firefighter within WA's state fire and emergency service. Prior to this, employed within the Australian Army for a decade with deployments on peacekeeping, mentoring and warfighting operations.
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