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For those with iPhones, RC (UK) have launched a free app, iResus Resuscitation Council UK iResus app The app is automatically updated with any changes to the guidelines. I don't have an iPhone and so can't say if it's any good or not, but there seem to be a a few good reviews on the app website.

I'm not surprised! If you'd wanted to do that, you'd have enquired about it in the first place. Still, if there's a bit of interest from yourself and others despite your last experience, I can put out some feelers to the Programme Lead. There's been a big shake-up over the past year with...

Did you get in contact with Peninsula, remotemedic, or was it just the bit on the website? I have some contacts within BASMU, and if there were a number of people interested in doing the PGDip (for starters), then I'd be willing to let them know and see what they said. It's definitely at...

I looked at the first module a few years ago but found it pretty turgid and left it. However, a mate (ex-nursing background, now remote medic) has been doing it for the past year or two and said this: "Feedback for the DipROM - well its certainly a lot of work, and some modules are definitely...

Completely agree, NeuralNet, it is a simple technique and it will be interesting to hear reports coming in from the road if people start using it more early on. Thanks for putting the word out about the paper.

It will be interesting to see how this area develops. We might start seeing a bigger difference between bystander and professional BLS, or between immersion/submersion and land BLS. As you say, distantmedic, hyperventilation can raise the ICP by blowing off too much CO2, but hypoventialtion can...

A friend just sent me this paper.

Good paper to publicise. It's not just these anecdotal reports, it's a recognised technique more usually used in critical care units as "manual chest decompression". I remmeber once having to explain to one woman what the reason why she had a residual problem of a bruised chest after her arrest...

I've had the same problem with US companies not understanding that ALS/APLS do actually mean that you can do BLS. I ended up having to send them the instructors' material for the courses before I escaped having to do a BLS. now i just need to make sure I pass the APLS recert before the job :)

The paralysis/not walking bit in the 1970's was down to Guillain-Barre syndrome, but your chances of getting that after swine flu are a few orders of magnitude higher than after the vaccine, which is a modification of the "normal" flu vaccine. I think it's individual risk/benefit - I'm fit and...

I think you're on the right tracks, Russ. Atropine has already gone from the Australian & New Zealand guidelines, and also in APLS. Simplicity rules!

You could also try the courses run by ExMed Exmed - Global leaders of medical equipment supply, medical support and training. They do FPOS basic and intermdiate, and also two Medicine in Remote Areas which are independently certificated by the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal Colege of...