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All doctors in EMICS are volunteers who attend emergency incidents at the request of and in support of staff from the EMAS.

These doctors are all very experienced and fully trained in trauma work and are equipped to perform life saving interventions at the scene of an incident such as industrial or road traffic accident or rail crash. They carry with them a wide range of specialist equipment to deal with the serious trauma and other emergencies that might be encountered in their day to day emergency work.

Although all the doctors work for EMICS on a totally voluntary basis, the Scheme, which is a registered charity, urgently needs to raise funds to purchase more of the specialist equipment that the doctors carry so that more doctors can be recruited.

A typical set of equipment for the doctors cost around £25,000. EMICS is a registered charity and receives no financial support from any government source. Anyone wishing to support the work of EMICS can do so by telephoning the Treasurer on 07736711199 or by emailing foster@emics.org.uk

Meetings 2010

Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

East Midlands Regional Faculty of Pre Hospital Care

£3 Donation per person

Time: 1930 Coffee / Start to 2130 approx

Both programmes are open to anyone with a pre-hospital care interest. In order to facilitate planning of each session, if possible please indicate your intention to attend by email to: Andy Lee or Pam Hardy

Certificate of attendance will be issued for your CPD

February 15	Winning Hearts: Cardiology – all you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask..	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station	Dr Justin Cooke, Consultant Cardiologist, Chesterfield Royal Hospital As a Cardiologist working closely with ambulance and Emergency Department staff on the provision of thrombolysis, Dr Cooke has a unique insight into the problems we all face in interpreting the ECG and clinical picture, especially with the more subtle and uncommon presentations. This session will provide some of the answers to those problems as well as giving an insight into new development strategies for the treatment of AMI and ACS that affect us all in our pre-hospital practice.
March 15	Putting The Pieces Together	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station	Police Accident Investigation Derbyshire Police Road Accident Investigation Officer As an experienced accident investigator who has dedicated years to policing and AIMS team work, the session is set to deliver an interesting and educational look at the work of post incident investigation. With the use of case studies, demonstrations of the science behind reconstruction and the “must do” list for the professional pre hospital practitioner the session is highly recommended.
April 12	Aviation Medicine: Considerations for Pre-hospital and Inter-hospital Transfer	Meridian Training Centre, Leicester Directions on how to get to Meridian Business Park	Sqn Ldr Dr Bob Tipping MB BS FRCA. RAF, SpR Anaesthetics, Royal Derby Hospital Squadron Leader Bob Tipping is a Specialist Registrar in Anaesthetics and HEMS doctor, having recently been on secondment to civilian HEMS practice from the RAF. He has been on recent deployment in Afghanistan where he was working with the Medical Emergency Response Team. He will talk about the physiology of aviation medicine and practicalities of air transport in both civilian and military practice, with valuable lesions to be learnt for the future of UK trauma systems
May 17	Paediatric Scenarios	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station	led by Andy Lee Andy will lead us thru some active hands on Paediatric Scenarios
June 21	Ballistic Trauma	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station	Major Rob Thornhill MBChB FCARCSI EDIC DipIMC(RCS.Ed) RAMC SpR Anaesthesia & ICM, University Hospitals of Coventry & Warwick As a recently deployed Major in the RAMC, and Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and HEMS doctor in civilian UK practice, Major Rob Thornhill is well placed to talk about injuries inflicted by weapons and missiles in both civilian and military practice. A previous faculty event delivered by this speaker was excellent and was rated very highly by attendees from all backgrounds. In light of recent events in the UK that any of us could have been part of, this is a vital session for all professional pre-hospital practitioners.
July 19	Management of Obstetric Emergencies	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station	Heather and Eleanor are both Delivery suite coordinators / senior midwives at St James's Hospital Leeds. Between them they have over 48 years of experienced in the management and teaching of obstetric emergencies. The session will include a talk on the different emergencies, eclampsia, ante and post partum haemorrhage, cord prolapse, breech birth and shoulder dystocia, with the emphasis on what can realistically be achieved in a pre hospital setting. They will demonstrate the manouevres required for breech birth and shoulder dystocia, and how to massage a uterus in postpartum haemorrhage the evening is set to provide an excellent session to improve skills in the management of obstetric emergencies..
September 20	Ketamine, Paed’s & Paramedic Prescribing: A Drug-related Workshop	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station Time: 1930 Coffee 1945 Start to 2115 approx Cost £3 per person The programme is open to anyone with a pre-hospital care interest. In order to facilitate planning of each session	Mark Folman James Gray Cherylene Camps This session will be a dynamic workshop rotating through three important areas of therapeutic practice in pre-hospital care: Ketamine – analgesia and sedation; licensing and legislation; who can give it? And what to expect from the patient who has been given it... Paediatric drugs and doses – those difficult estimations and calculations and how to reduce the risk of making an error in the heat of the moment Paramedic prescribing – what does it mean? Insight into the non-medical prescribing course from a paramedic perspective and what it means in practice
October 11	No meeting scheduled
November 15	Insight to HART	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station Time: 1930 Coffee 1945 Start to 2115 approx Cost £3 per person The programme is open to anyone with a pre-hospital care interest. In order to facilitate planning of each session	Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) are specially trained personnel who provide an ambulance response to major incidents involving hazardous materials, or which present hazardous environments, that have occurred as a result of an accident or have been caused deliberately. The East Midlands Team will be providing an insight into their role and activities within our region.
December 6	Major Incident Refresher – Followed by case reviews from the year.	Alfreton - Fire Station Directions on how to get to Alfreton Fire station Time: 1930 Coffee 1945 Start to 2115 approx Cost £3 per person The programme is open to anyone with a pre-hospital care interest. In order to facilitate planning of each session	Our own EMICS Doctors will be presenting the evening starting with a general refresher and overview of actions taken at a major Incident. This is to be presented by Dr John Trenfield (EMICS Doctor and MIMMS instructor) Other members of the team will be presenting jobs of interest from the year. Our annual tradition will of course be maintained with a good provision of mince pies for this, the last session of the year.