Jamie Riggs

@HaimusAl Congratulations Fayad!

Honoured to receive the Best Resident Talk Award (2024–2025) from U of T Emergency Medicine! This recognition means a lot — especially coming from such an inspiring and supportive community of educators, mentors, and colleagues. Grateful to be part of it. #Emergencymedicine

@TheSGEM @canadianwildmed @snewbery1 @broomedocs @lespsar @EMManchester @CanadianKayMD @stemlyns @GatewayRuralH Great idea, I'd be happy to!

@riggsy @canadianwildmed @snewbery1 @broomedocs @lespsar @EMManchester @CanadianKayMD @stemlyns Perhaps you could give a @GatewayRuralH public lecture on the topic?

TLDR: if you want to try VEMS here is the kit we used, along with instructions and some thoughts, tips and tricks. It’s a bit janky but works great with plans to continue updating: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Tagging some rural, wilderness & prehospital people who may be interested in VEMS. Would love to hear your thoughts. @canadianwildmed @snewbery1 @broomedocs @TheSGEM @lespsar @EMManchester @CanadianKayMD @stemlyns See toolkit here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

The teams loved it, it was highly engaging as a facilitator and debriefer, set up/clean up took <5min, everything fit in one letter sized folder and the whole thing cost less than $60! To quote one of the participants: ‘Every rural hospital should have this!’

@ICEM2025 Whole blood transfusion happening already @Aucklandhems - we carry 2 units on all prehospital jobs, and about to start enrolling in SWIFT trial. A huge effort from everyone to make it happen but willing to bet it will be shown to make a difference in prehospital trauma.

⚠️ What’s the catch? Surprisingly: very low risk of complications so far. 🚑 What’s next? Whole blood in prehospital settings — giving trauma patients the right resuscitation from the start. This could be a game changer. #ICEM2025 #WholeBlood #TraumaCare #Resuscitation

🧵Whole Blood – More Than the Sum of Its Parts? By Dr. Zaffer Qasim | #ICEM2025 Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable trauma deaths. Are we finally moving past component therapy? ⬇️ #FOAMed #Trauma #EmergencyMedicine

@cjmdenny @precordialthump

Inspired to share this after seeing all the #ICEM2025 posts, and hoping to contribute some MedEd from the southern hemisphere. @CAEP_Docs @HumanFact0rz @petrosoniak @EmICUcanada @davidcarr333 @ICEM2025

...not feasible, as it requires time, resources, and technology that is not available outside of most sim centres. So what we need is something cheap (ideally free), easy to set up and store, but that keeps as much of the goodness of ‘traditional’ sim as possible. So what to do?

To do this with swarm teams however needs a different approach to traditional simulation. If the team changes every day, or every shift, how can we train together? I think an answer could be more frequent simulation training. Conducting a traditional simulation is likely...

This year with @Aucklandhems I have spent a lot of time thinking about human performance, in particular how create and sustain high levels of performance in teams.