David R HoggProfessional Profile

Publication type: Oral Presentation

Publication type: Oral Presentation

Background Arran is an island community with finite – but committed – emergency medical resources.  Prior to October 2010 no mechanism existed for regular dialogue between emergency teams such as the ambulance, mountain rescue, coastguard and fire services.  We sought to change this with the aim of better networking and interagency training. Intervention We aimed […]

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Publication type: Oral Presentation

BASICS (Scotland) provides education and support in prehospital emergency care to healthcare providers throughout remote and rural Scotland. Nationally, the organisation enables 176 healthcare providers who respond to prehospital emergency calls in their locality in support of the Scottish Ambulance Service. Given the geographical challenges faced by rural responders wishing to attend such meetings, a […]

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Publication type: Oral Presentation

In this session, I aimed to summarise the important contribution of seminal works (such as A Fortunate Man, A Country Doctor and Single Handed), and consider how to share effective images that provide insight to the modern rural practitioner, and consider social media streams available to share this work. Find out more by searching for […]

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