‘Designing the RSI’ with Paul Swinton

In this session we will be interviewing flight paramedic Paul
Swinton, to talk about how to optimise the RSI in the
pre-hospital environment. We will unpack 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.


Paul has been a paramedic for the past 20 years. He joined the
Scottish Ambulance Service Special Operations Response Team,
based in Glasgow, in 2010, after re-locating from the West
Midlands Ambulance Service. He is currently an Air Ambulance
Paramedic for the Scottish Air Ambulance Division, involved in
critical care and retrieval medicine, working alongside the
trauma teams and medical retrieval services of Scotland
(ScotSTAR). He is originally from South Africa, where he
qualified and worked as a paramedic on the road, in Emergency
Departments and as a flight paramedic.





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You can see the SCRAM range as mentioned in the episode here:
https://www.openhouseproducts.com/?s=SCRAM&post_type=product


You can find out more about the guest here:
https://paulswinton.com


I hope you enjoy this episode with an engaging and insightful
guest.