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Australian Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2016 update

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, February 26, 2016, In : Clinical topics 


The Australian Resuscitation Council, in co-operation with the New Zealand Resuscitation Council have at last published their local take on the recently released ILCOR 2015 guideline update for adult, paediatric and neonatal basic and advanced resuscitation. Released in mid January, the combined Australian and New Zealand update makes recommendations for how resuscitation should be conducted here based on the evidence and guidelines issued by the central body, ILCOR.

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SMACC 2015 - Chicago

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, July 17, 2015, In : Conferences, courses & events 


So, SMACC (Social Media And Critical Care) was great. This is the third year that this tribe-inclusive, hierarchy-leveling conference has been run. The first two were in Australia (Sydney in 2013 and the Gold Coast in 2014) and this year SMACC crossed the Pacific to the McCormick Place Convention Centre in Chicago.



If you went, then you'll know what I'm talking about and you are probably just coming down off the high. If not, well, you missed out. There was content for the pre-hospitalists, em...

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Check your calendar and pack your suitcase

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, In : Conferences, courses & events 
It's been a while since the last post, but there's been no dawdling. I've moved house (Still waiting for the phone company to get the WiFi sorted out so I'm writing this at the local library), been through the WRC Rally Australia event (photos and learning points will be the next post) and been to Singapore for the inaugural FIA Asia-Pacific Serious Accident Study Group (Again, post coming soon).

And it's not over yet. So this post is a quick summary of four upcoming events that I think are w...
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Medical response at Formula 1: Insider

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, In : Musings and opinion 


For anyone who doesn't already know, Dr Gary Hartstein, the previous FIA Medical Rescue Co-ordinator who rode shotgun with Alan van der Merwe in the Mercedes AMG C63 station wagon at the back of the grid for each F1 start, has moved on from mere tweeting and now writes his own blog, A Former F1 Doc Writes.


More recently, he has started a series of posts on how a medical response to a racing incident is articulated. The posts give an insight into how the process is managed at the very highest l...

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FIA Annual General Assembly Istanbul 2012

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Conferences, courses & events 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Last week I went to the FIA Annual General Assembly, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey. It ran for a week and the first day and a half were, for the first time, given over to medical and rescue aspects of motor sports, under the title of Medicine in Motor Sport. And it was pretty good.



Monday morning was a Chief Medical Officers' seminar, which consisted of a report from each of the major FIA categories (F1, WRC, WTCC and WEC) and a...
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Clinical logistics: A key pillar for efficient provision of acute care

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, September 10, 2012

One of the many nice things about working as a medic at motorsports events, apart from the cars, the racing and the atmosphere, is the chance to work alongside a focused group who share the same goals and work co-operatively to a purpose. Everyone brings something to the playing field and a lot of traditional barriers come down. This probably explains in part why managing a trauma victim in a hazardous, resource-limited, potentially h...
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Formula 1 2012 Season regulations

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Regulations developments 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The 2012 season of Formula One is about to get started, with all of the teams converging on Melbourne this weekend for the opening event at Albert Park. Every year there are a slew of changes, as drivers renew or change contracts (or are terminated altogether), teams get new names and new liveries nad the FIA adjusts technical and sporting regulations.

You could go to the FIA website and trawl through all of the regulations, or you could ...
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Crazy Monegasques

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Musings and opinion 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, February 9, 2012

For me, the Catalunya Rally always had the most mental spectators. Lining the edges of the route 3 - 5 deep and scuttling out of the way only metres in front of an oncoming rally car and surging back in afterwards, it was only a matter of time before someone's luck ran out.

The Monte Carlo Rally is back on the WRC calendar, with a mammoth 5 day event (the influence of Jean Todt's preference for endurance events perhaps?). What a great...
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V8 Supercar: Car of the Future safety features

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

The V8 Supercars Cars of the Future were unveiled at the Telstra 500 in Olympic Park at the start of December. They include a number of weight-reducing, stability improving and cost saving developments that, so far, have been approved by the drivers that have had a go in them. Having had a chat with one of the engineers involved in their build, they still have a quick release steering wheel and quick release doors. They will also have...
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Farewell Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, January 16, 2014, In : Musings and opinion 
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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Flywheel KERS

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, January 16, 2014, In : Technical developments 
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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V8SCs go to the US

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, January 16, 2014, In : Notifications 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The V8 Supercars and Circuit of the Americas have agreed to a deal that brings the V8s to Austin Texas for 5 years from 2013. You can read the full details at http://tinyurl.com/6bjg4h8
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