Ben Shepherd

This is why we need to stay humble as a doctor. We will never have seen everything. An intrahepatic ectopic pregnancy! Delivered 2.8kg and live. Simply amazing case and phenomenal images. #foamed

JOIN OUR TEAM We're now looking for HEMS Registrars in the Whitsundays for August 2026 - February 2027 (or beyond) @LifeFlight_Aus DM if interested EM, ICU, Anaesthetic, Rural Registrars or Consultants Overseas applicants welcome DM if interested and Help Share #FOAMed #HEMS

Santa has been spotted! Merry Christmas Everyone

It's been a big week when the #HEMS team has run out of adult-sized ETTs...

@_Ronan124_ @LifeFlight_Aus Send me a DM

@B_R_Shep @LifeFlight_Aus Hi Ben, looks great. How do I go about applying?

Looking for a HEMS registrar in regional QLD for 6-12 months (starting Feb 2025). [Due to late withdrawal] Best job in medicine. Great base. New aircraft. Based in Whitsundays (Mackay) @LifeFlight_Aus Needs to be domestic (timing). SR or Consultant in EM/ICU/Anaes/RG. 0.5 or 1.0

@GemsRidley @LifeFlight_Aus We recruit every 12 months. Feel free to get in touch if doing HEMS in the Whitsunday region is something you're interested in.

@B_R_Shep @LifeFlight_Aus Would have loved this! But have a locked in job!

@docborderless @LifeFlight_Aus DM is fine

@B_R_Shep @LifeFlight_Aus Hi Ben how can i get in touch with u?

Interesting case Middle aged man, HEMS primary for OOHCA. ROSC with anterolateral STEMI. Thrombolysed (distance/time) and transported 2hrs to PCI centre and underwent rescue cath. 95% LAD. Needed secondary transfer due to intercostal injury exacerbated by DAPT, heparin, lysis.

@RyanMarino This is great

@MStott88 In an ideal world inpatient teams would only see people with a definitive work-up and some certainty about diagnosis/disposition if not time-critical. But with hospital overcrowding/access block the system must evolve to give better care "to the many". It's a hard balance

Why is it so popularist to make surgeons the patriarchs of being difficult and “lazy”. A cardiologist would not see chest pain without an EGC and troponin before embarking on invasive treatment. Surgeons are expected to see vague histories of abdo pain still with bloods pending

Dizziness is a notoriously tricky chief complaint to work up in the ED. Let’s review one of the most up to date guidelines on how to approach it. 🧵 1/8 #MedEd

@EBMgoneWILD I have a good support structure around me. I will make it back from this.

@B_R_Shep I hope you get lots of decompression time for this.

Tough day in the office today #HEMS #EmergencyMedicine

@EBMgoneWILD It got tougher.

@B_R_Shep Brutal mate.

@EBMgoneWILD @jducanto @AirwayMxAcademy @airwayGladiator @DaveOlvera1 Looks cool mate What were some of the best pearls?

It was a whirlwind 2 days. So many small groups. So many procedures performed. Train how you fight. Fight how you train. @jducanto @AirwayMxAcademy @airwayGladiator @DaveOlvera1 #bigsaladrome23

@EBMgoneWILD @HumanFact0rz I genuinely fear we are on this island alone (The rational use of investigations). Patients want more tests, other clinicians are more comfortable with more tests, incident reviews almost never support less tests, and in Australia we don't have much litigation... yet It's hard.

@HumanFact0rz And yet, litigation demonstrates we don't order enough. So really, we just aren't ordering the right ones.

We order too many CT scans. There, I said it.

@MDaware @drphiliplee1 youtu.be/26ZDB9h7BLY Luxury...

@drphiliplee1 at least you had a box,

Idk I think you guys have it pretty lucky as juniors nowadays tbh. When I was a house officer, the senior nurses had a cardboard box with DOGTOR written on it, and they'd bleep me once an hour to sit in it and "bark for them like a good boy" or they'd datix me.

Pretty cool start to nightshift #EMS #nofilter

@TraumaSoapBoxes 365mg gentamicin

@Medic_Russell @Alexpazzer "Combat application tourniquet (CAT) tourniquet" I used this term until someone ruined ED Department for me 😂

@Alexpazzer CAT tourniquet

once again fighting for my life in the name of sexual health