Dr Andrew Pearce
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Divisional Clinical Director, SAAS MedStar Retrieval, Adelaide, Australia
Prof and Air Commodore Andrew Pearce is a pre-hospital and retrieval medicine specialist in Adelaide, South Australia as well as Director General Health Reserves Air Force. Andrew is also an emergency physician and trauma consultant at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Andrew has several national and international deployments both in civilian and military roles through Banda Aceh, Samoa, East Timor, Middle East, Solomon Islands, Germany, Antarctica and Kangaroo Island. Andrew has academic appointments with James Cook University, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, Australasian College pf Emergency Medicine and Adelaide University. Andrew is supported by his amazing wife Annette, Dermatologist, son Matthew RAAF, daughters Lauren, medical student and Ella who wants to be a ski instructor after a recent holiday in NZ.. |
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Dealing with Disasters
No one is an expert in dealing with disasters and during your life there is a high probability you will be involved with providing care in a major incident. What can you do to be prepared for major incidents and what is it you are likely to face? From education, table tops, exercises, deployments and debriefing the path can be varied, challenging and confronting. How do we know we are prepared and the system we work in is ready, tested and able to provide the care required. It’s likely the scenario you will face has occurred before. History is key to knowing how to prepare and respond.
High Performing Teams: How Do We Deal with High Acuity Training in Trauma?
We call it high acuity, low occurrence, perhaps the 1% cases. The stuff that is really tricky and challenging that we don’t get to do very often, i.e. we don’t get to do it, the team members don’t get to assist or set up for doing it and we are all hoping that together it will all work out. How do we identify, train and master the <1% procedures, cases, decisions in a multidisciplinary group when time is of the essence and decision making is key?
