‘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.

This podcast is brought to you in collaboration with Scottish Health Innovations Limited, also known as SHIL, who work in partnership with NHS Scotland to identify, protect, develop and commercialise healthcare innovations to improve patient care. SHIL uses specialised knowledge to help bring new ideas and innovations from healthcare professionals to life, with a multidisciplinary team providing expert services including intellectual property advice and protection, regulatory expertise, project management, idea incubation, funding advice, development, commercialisation, and post-commercialisation monitoring. 

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

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