Leicester Wilderness and Emergency Medicine Society (LWEMS)

Leicester Wilderness and Emergency Medicine Society

We're LWEMS, a friendly bunch of outdoorsy people with an interest in pre-hospital, wilderness and emergency medicine.

Anyone from medicine years 1-5 can take part in our teaching sessions, plus regular events and trips all over the UK:

Intro to Emergency Medicine Course

Wilderness Medicine Weekend

Refugee Camp Simulation game

Camping and hiking trips all over the UK!

See what's on now at: https://lwems.co.uk/events/

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Get lots more info on our website - https://lwems.co.uk/

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Our Committee 2023/24

Co-President - Sameera Mazhar

Co-President - Kimberlyn Adade

Vice President - James Redman

Secretary - Rakiya Mashaka

Treasurer - Huarui Xue

Wellbeing Officer - Sophie Ruggles

Communications Officer - Kate Duffy

Events Officer - Gregory Felton

Events Officer - Christine Loft

Education Officer - Jack Crinigan

Phase 1 Officer - Aboli Joshi

We can't wait to meet you all xx

We don't have anything planned right now but check back soon!

ABCDE Assessment

An A-E, or ABCDE, assessment is a method of assessing and stabilising a patient in a stepwise approach - in order of priority of the things that will cause the most harm. You can perform an A-E assessment on any unwell or deteriorating patient to help you ascertain what’s going on.

LifePak 15 Monitor Defibrillator being charged.

Cardiac Arrest Overview

It's important for all healthcare workers to have an understanding of how to identify a patient that is in cardiac arrest, or at risk of imminent cardiac arrest, using the A-E assessment approach. You should then be able to call for support from the cardiac arrest team and perform CPR to begin resuscitation of a patient while waiting for help to arrive.

The Reversible Causes of Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac arrest is a sudden irregularity/loss of heart function, resulting in a loss of cardiac output. This requires resuscitation by following the Advanced Life Support Algorithm. You can learn more about resuscitation, including chest compressions, airway management, rhythm recognition and defibrillation in our Cardiac Arrest article.

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