Our clinical team held a fantastic training day at our airbase today. This has focused on the topic of ultrasound in pre-hospital critical care.

Several ultrasound experts throughout the region were invited to teach and assess our clinical team, which provided a great level of shared learning experience for everyone involved. A range of equipment demonstrations and ultrasound teaching workshops took place during the day, which were hugely beneficial to the team’s ongoing development.

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who helped to make the day such a success including: 

• James King and Matthew Day at GE Healthcare who have generously provided ultrasound equipment for the day
• Dr Langford at Enhanced Care Services Ltd for providing trolleys
• Everyone who volunteered their time to help as ‘patients’ to be scanned
• Student paramedics from Bournemouth and SWAST ambulance crews
• Dr Celestine Weegenaar at Bristol Royal Infirmary
• Dr Lily Stanley at Southmead Hospital and Thames Valley Air Ambulance
• Dr Martin Weller at Southampton Hospital and Thames Valley Air Ambulance
• Steve Savage - Consultant Sonographer at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Joe Schriber - ED Consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• Henstridge Airfield Clubhouse and airfield owner Geoff Jarvis for providing lunch

Thanks also go to our practitioners for engaging in Amy McGufficke’s master’s project, which gathered data on the impact of training non-physicians in ultrasound-guided arterial line insertion.