Presented by Dr Tony Smith Medical Director for St John Ambulance New Zealand and Intensive Care Medicine Specialist at Auckland City Hospital.

Tony chairs the working group that develops the Clinical Procedures and Guidelines for the ambulance sector in New Zealand and he oversees all of the clinical aspects of St John activities in New Zealand, noting that the ambulance service is just one aspect of this. He is a member of the New Zealand Resuscitation Council and the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation. He has an active involvement in pre-hospital research, with a focus on a collaborative approach to contributing to multi-centre trials. He is a member of the HEMS team in Auckland and has a very active ‘hands on’ role in out of hospital care.

This presentation is from ANZCP Conference 2015.