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INTERNATIONAL PREHOSPITAL CARE CONFERENCE “THE TEAM IS THE THEME” There will be presentations, discussions and debates on what it takes to be an effective immediate care practitioner and how to try to achieve and maintain this. Varied teams will give us insights into their work. There will be something to learn for everyone as we look forward. Keynote speakers on areas of national and international interest. More information coming soon. |
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DR PETER BASKETT 26th July 1934 – 18th April 2008 Peter Baskett starting lecturing and teaching in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) soon after his appointment as Consultant Anaesthetist to the Royal Infirmary and Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , UK in 1966; he has been at the forefront of resuscitation in Europe and elsewhere in the world for 40 years. He was a Founder Member of the Resuscitation Council (UK), which was established formally in 1984. In 1989, Peter was appointed as Chairman of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and remained a very active Officer and Board Member of this organisation right up to his death. As a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) from 1995 to 2000, Peter developed the international guidelines on airway management during resuscitation, and healthcare professionals across the world respected his expertise on this subject. In 1994 Peter published one of the first studies on the use of the laryngeal mask airway for in-hospital resuscitation. In 2005, in recognition of Peter’s contributions to resuscitation the American Heart Association awarded him as a ‘Resuscitation Giant’. Peter was greatly respected within his principal specialty of anaesthesia; he was a Past President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), and served as a member of council of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Peter was also President of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Chairman of the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) from 1982 to 1985, and President of the International Trauma, Anaesthesia, and Critical Care Society (ITACCS). Peter was made an honorary life member of the AAGBI, BASICS, the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the ERC. Peter Baskett played a leading role in promoting both citizen CPR within the UK community and advanced life support ( ALS ) courses within hospitals throughout Europe . Peter personally introduced the ERC ALS course into more than 20 countries in Europe and the Middle East . Until very recently, he continued to teach, on a voluntary basis, on approximately 25 ERC ALS courses each year. Peter had been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Resuscitation from 1997. Under his leadership the journal grew significantly in quality and status. Peter authored over 170 scientific publications and edited five books on resuscitation and emergency medicine. Along with Douglas Chamberlain, Peter introduced advanced training for ambulance personnel in the UK ; these individuals evolved into what we now know as paramedics. Peter was responsible for introducing premixed nitrous oxide/oxygen (Entonox) as an analgesic for use by ambulance personnel in the UK . Alongside every great man is a great lady. Vital to Peter’s success was the tremendous and unfaltering support that he received from his wife Fiona. The strength of her support, along with that of Peter’s son Simon and daughters Lucy, Olivia and Beatrice, was demonstrated most overwhelming during his final and prolonged illness. The name of Peter Baskett is familiar to the resuscitation community worldwide. He accumulated a staggering number of achievements and they impacted significantly on many disciplines. He is a great loss to the ERC. |
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SMART@Scene
6 - 8 June 2008 For more information, click here
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What is BASICS? Why is the Association needed? Sadly, the need to call 999 for an ambulance continues and current figures show an increasing demand on this service. Accidents, illness and major incidents do happen! |
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Major Incidents
London bombings and BASICS here. Within our membership we have world leaders in the speciality who devote much of their time sharing information so that others can prepare for the worst case senario. The role of the MIO draws together many of their exsisting skills utilised during BASICS work, some are listed here:
The main accepted models of training for major incidents in UK are: -
For more major incident related courses contact BASICS HQ. |
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Local Applications The Ambulance service ambulance service provides a high standard and at times quite complex emergency care system but there are also many occasions when emergency care requires a mulit-agency response at a local level.
BASICS is an association of highly trained immediate care practitioners who provide their services in support of the ambulance service. Their activity is not bound by this one area, immediate care practitioners can be found at
They can also be found around the country responding as individuals to specific requests from ambulance control centres. |
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Who are BASICS Immediate Care Practitioners Immediate care practitioners can be drawn from the professions such as: Doctors, Registered Nurses, State Registered Paramedics and Military Medics (CMT 1)
Working together Certain pre-hospital emergency teams work together to enhance the treatment power that can be delivered to the scene i.e. Nurse/Doctor - Paramedic/Doctor and many now have integrated first responders. With a diversity of pre-hospital activity within UK, BASICS offers individual practitioners and schemes a support and advice network that can not be found anywhere else. The British Association for Immediate Care is the organisation that brings us all together - BASICS is:  The Professional Body - representing all involved in pre-hospital immediate medical care, whatever their discipline.
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| Doctors - here | Registered Nurses - here | Paramedics - updating | Military Medics - updating | |
A message from the chairman - Dr David Zideman
Modernisation and Reform Constitution and Bylaws The draft was presented to the Executive meeting in June and the final document, for approval and implementation, will be presented to the membership at the Annual General Meeting in October. Communication Communication is a major constituent of our organisation. Head Office has now had its computers upgraded to allow for more efficient electronic communication with our members. Andrew Thurgood and the BASICS office continue to develop the website which will more closely represent our organisation’s activities. The website will soon include a section which will encourage individual members and schemes to report on their activities and another section to develop the theme of clinical governance with subsections on clinical effectiveness, critical incident reporting (e.g. equipment failure) and accountability. The BASICS executive is very aware that it does not have enough of a dialogue with its membership and we hope this will start to remedy the situation. In an effort to improve communications with our professional colleagues and the general public, Brian Robertson has produced a new BASICS brochure. This brochure provides essential information about our organisation, its aims, objectives and structure. It is available from National Headquarters I hope that you agree that BASICS is in the process of modernising and that you will support the reforms that will keep us in line with the pre-hospital world in the 21st Century. David Zideman |
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 Generic Core Material Finally, BASICS Education has been busy reviewing the new core syllabus just published by the Faculty of Immediate Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. This is an important document in the field of education within pre-hospital care and I am delighted to report that BASICS Education have been asked to contribute to the ongoing review panel which will keep this document accurate and up-to-date. This important work will promote standardiastion across pre-hospital care and will therefore form the spine of our educational material. |
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It is with the deepest regret we announce the death of Peter Baskett, the Editor-in-Chief of Resuscitation and prominent member of the Board of the European Resuscitation Council. The extensive contribution that Peter has made to medicine in general, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation specifically, will appear in Resuscitation as a special article in the series ‘Resuscitation Greats’. 
More recent events remind us that major incidents still happen. BASICS members continue to train for such eventualities. 
Another example of this mulit-agency response would be seen at an 'industrial accident' where for example a worker has become trapped in machinery. The ambulance service would work along side the fire service to assist in the rescue. In addition to this, the ambulance service could call an immediate care practitioner (BASICS Doctor) who could assist with more advanced analgesia (pain relief) and, if necessary, carry out any surgical procedure needed to extricate the patient.
Their level of skill and knowledge can be varied and is generally related to the scope of practice that the individual's profession advocates. A common ethos which drives all involved in immediate care is quite simply............ 'the relief of suffering'.