MRaCC Alice Springs – a retrieval experience like no other!
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This is a guest post by Dr Michelle Withers (@desertoak), emergency physician at Alice Springs Hospital
On February 12th, 2018, a new and completely unique service went live in Alice Springs – the Medical Retrieval and Consultation Centre (MRaCC). The Central Australian Retrieval service has been operating from the Alice Springs Hospital in conjunction with RFDS in various guises for many years, and we were first accredited for training in 2006. We already consider ourselves an “interesting” place to work, and we’ve been the subject of a previous LITFL article, and a number of Jellybean Podcasts.
Red Dust, dingoes, trauma and sepsis
Jellybean 064 with Dr Michelle Withers
Jellybean 57 with Richard Johnson of Director of Retrieval Medicine Alice Springs
JellyBean 013 with Penny Stewart
The opening of MRaCC caused a seismic shift in how retrievals are handled in Central Australia, bringing all co-ordination together via the one service. Since we started operations, all clinics, stations, mines, and anyone else requiring emergency advice or evacuation in our (1.26 million km2) catchment area, now call a single number to contact MRaCC, which is staffed at all times by specialist retrieval clinicians.
Since the red dust has settled, we are seeing obvious benefits to patients – better and faster communication, earli...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Pre-hospital / Retrieval Alice Springs medical retrieval and consultation centre michelle withers MRaCC Source Type: blogs
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