Just finished a fantastic Patient Management in Hostile Environments course at the Shelterbox International Academy on the Lizard Penninsula, Cornwall, with students from the Rescue and Emergency Management FdSc course at Cirnwall College. Final scenario included 2 real downed helicopters and 5 serious trauma patients on an operational airbase at 2300!

Back to the day job today! Another excellent and varied day managing patients with serious facial trauma, cauda equina syndrome, spinal damage and the usual array of limb injuries. Without wanting to sound corny, every job is a learning experience. Trying to look up each condition as, or after, I deal with it.

Lesson of the day:

Don't be complacent! An old lesson that needs re emphasising every so often!