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Professor Sid Watkins retires from FIA Institute

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, December 13, 2011

At the age of 83 and after 50 years of work with motor sports, Professor Sid Watkins has retired from his position as President of the FIA Institute, which was established in October 2004. He has been succeeded by Prof Gerard Saillant, the former Deputy President. Prof Saillant is, in turn, succeeded as Deputy President by Mr Gary Connelly, previously an executive committee member.


To mark Prof Watkins’ massive contributions to motorsport, he was recently awarded the FIA Academy Gold Medal, had a bronze bust presented to him at the FIA AGM in New Dehli and was elected as the first Honorary President of the FIA Institute. For a review of his motor sports career and inputs, read the FIA Institute tribute here: http://www.fiainstitute.com/news/Pages/article-999999996.aspx

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Notifications 

 

Intubation in the field - Clear enough space!

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Check out this article for some insights on factors that make pre-hospital intubation a challenge.

Difficult prehospital endotracheal intubation – predisposing factors in a physician based EMS. Resuscitation 2011 Dec;82(12):1519-24.

A European study that attempted to identify factors that influenced the difficulty of pre-hospital, physician conducted intubation. Along with the usual patient features that have previous been identified,...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Clinical topics 

 

Competitive driver license

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, November 2, 2011

From the "Medicine in Motor Sport" textbook, produced by the FIA:

"As concerns the FIA, the absolute contraindications to issuance of a standard competition license are:

  • treated or untreated epilepsy with behavioural effects at any point during the previous 10 years;
  • any cardiovascular problem with a risk of sudden death;
  • monocular vision for less than 5 years (in case of monocular vision for more than 5 years, the FIA Medical Commissio...

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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Regulations developments 

 

Inventive approach to rapid cricothyroidotomy

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Emergency cricothyroidotomy is a scary beast in the resus room of a tertiary hospital ED. Having it flop down in front of you at a race event is a pant filler!

There is constant debate over the best method to use, bouncing between needle cric and scalpel cric with various versions of tube introduction. There are supporters of both approaches, with cogent arguments on both sides, as seen on the previously mentionned EM Crit debate, betw...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Clinical topics 

 

Farewell Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, October 24, 2011

It has been a bad week for motor sport and more specifically for the families of motorsport competitors. The weekend before last, Indy Car driver Dan Wheldon was kiiled in a high speed, 15 car pile up at the Las Vegas circuit and yesterday Marco Simoncelli was killed at the Malaysian Moto GP. Both deaths occurred during racing and resulted in the remainder of each event being appropriately canceled.

Dan Wheldon, an Englishman who had pre...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Musings and opinion 

 

WRC and F1 GP 2012 calendars released

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Both the WRC and F1 GP have confirmed their calendars for the 2012 season.

The WRC calendar will start with the classic Monte Carlo stage and, for the first time since 2005, will finish in Spain instead of Wales (Rally GB will be held in September). It is a very Eurocentric schedule, with only 3 of the 13 events being held outside of Europe - Mexico, Argentina and New Zealand.



The F1 GP calendar is similar to the 2011 season. Melbourne ...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Notifications 

 

Australians assisting with Year 2 of F1GP South Korea

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The F1 juggernaut returns to South Korea in just under two weeks for the second time. Last year was the first ever hosting and a training team assembled by CAMS went over to help the Korean team to prepare and conduct the event. There were a number of stumbling blocks along the way, but despite these, the event won an FIA award for its efforts.

This year a smaller Australian contingent is returning to Mokpo for back-up while the K...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Musings and opinion 

 

CAMS/NMAC Review for Medical Services Requirements at Motor Sport Events in Australia

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, October 3, 2011

Earlier this year, the National Medical Advisory Council, which acts as an advisory body to CAMS on medical matters as they relate to motor sports, reviewed the medical services and requirements component of the CAMS General Regulations, which are located in the CAMS Manual of Motor Sport (http://www.cams.com.au/Sport/CAMS_Manual_of_Motor_Sport.aspx).

The document details personnel, vehicle and equipment requirements, along with the for...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Regulations developments 

 

Simpson Safety Solutions Hybrid Head Restraint system

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, October 3, 2011

The Simpson Performance Products company, which is based in New Braunfels, Texas, produces a range of race safety equipment, from suits, boots and gloves to helmets and HANS devices, catering for all categories of land based motor sports. It does all its own manufacturing and testing.

In July this year the FIA homologated its latest version of HANS devices, the Simpson/Safety Solutions Hybrid Head Restraint system (FIA 8858-2010 standard...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Technical developments 

 

Flywheel KERS

January 16, 2014
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, August 19, 2011

Racecar Engineering has an interesting article on flywheel KERS. While the article spends most of its time tracking the history of how former Renault F1 engineer, John Hilton, developed his flywheel KERS and started up his Flybrid Systems company with Doug Cross, it does give some insight into how flywheel kinetic energy recovery systems work. As it is written for an engineering magazine, it assumes a level of engineering knowledge.

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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Technical developments 

 
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