Pre-Hospital Care Podcast: Designing the RSI

Summary

The Pre-Hospital Care Podcast is designed to have engaging and inspirational conversations with some of the World’s leading experts relating to pre-hospital care.

This session interviews flight paramedic Paul Swinton, to talk about how to optimise the rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in the pre-hospital environment. It unpacks some of the nuances, challenges, and approaches that Paul has found from being both a pre-hospital practitioner and in innovating the layout and design for an RSI in creating the SCRAM bag.

SCRAM™ (Structured CRitical Airway Management) is an innovative solution for enhancing the performance of emergency airway management. It involves the systemisation, standardisation, cognitive offloading, human factors and good governance are core principles to the design and philosophy of SCRAM.