PracMed NZ, Tauranga (2025)

29/11/2025

New frontiers…
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I remember chatting to a mate of mine about drone delivery of medical supplies over a few drinks while watching Connor McGregor flatline Jose Aldo in 13 seconds.
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That was 10 years ago, almost to the day.
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Last week, the vision I had in 2015 became a reality.
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My ability and knowledge around the use of drones is virtually nil, that didn’t stop my understanding of how they could be employed and asking the questions of the team at VertiLink Advanced Air Mobility Group.
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After 2 hours of trauma, packaging and littering training we tested a concept and turned it into a capability.
• 15 seconds to provide immediate definitive care preventing a casualty bleeding out from two arterial bleeds.
• 4 mins to activate and fly a drone complete with full basic trauma and resus capabilities to our location (approx 3km).
• 10 mins to provide definitive interventions with tourniquets, junctional wound packing including use of the pressure control plate to ensure hemorrhage control, packaged and littered.
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Force multiplication starts with ensuring a wide spread of phase zero basic principles.
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Now we have proven how with minimal resource and in virtually no time we can ensure better outcomes.
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Beyond this transport of whole blood, pharma, Mascal interventions and non emergent routine medical deployments are very much a capabilities we look forward to offering.
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We have the resources, the experience and the relationships.
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All we need are quality driven organisations and individuals.
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Ad Salutem - To Save Lives.

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07/11/2025

These aren’t my words but I’ve felt this feeling.
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Absolute helplessness.
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You won’t need the techniques we teach 99.999r% of your life but when you do…
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This is why we focus on in New Zealand.
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132 lives saved, 17 from medical events, the rest… trauma.
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Ad Slautem - To Save Lives

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29/10/2025

Last week I was notified that the 132 life had been saved by one of our alumni.
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The patient was young, fit and healthy, presenting with agonal gasps - not your typical cardiac patient.
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While other staff members at the workplace (not trained) exploded mentally panicking, offering a sip of water to the patient and in some cases simply walking away our trained First Aider went to work, applying the AED and getting into compressions.
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A successful result ensued.
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A young life saved that otherwise would’ve been ended prematurely.
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Someone’s child, sibling, friend…
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This is our why.
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I am genuinely grateful to be at the head of a company that delivers tangible results and of course, all of the staff, administrators, trainers, SLT, who are part of every life we have impacted positively.
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We also supported the military, ran courses and delivered readiness scenarios nationwide.
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If your business isn’t on board with New Zealand’s premier First Aid training reach out - we’d love to add skills to what you already do be it the start of the journey or a seasoned veteran of the topic.
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Ad Salutem - To Save Lives.

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25/09/2025

Drive…
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Every person, every layer, every aspect of what we do knows how to, and is geared to win and succeed at the highest level.
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One of the critical layers is our General Manager, Steph, who is no stranger to performing under pressure and who has represented Australia at the Com Games narrowly missing a podium spot, has been in contention for Aus rugby 7s selection and been a representative athlete for a large portion of her life.
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The translation from what it requires to be a self funded athlete competing at the highest levels has transitioned over to how she operates now.
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Although you must be ruthlessly disciplined you always must apply and consider the human factor both in training with knowing your body and listening to it, and of course with customer and client care.
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Steph has accelerated our processes and back end into being an industry leading 1.6 (average) day turn around from course completion to qualifications uploaded on the NZQA system.
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Just like our syllabus, nobody can beat that.
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Often working behind the scenes, we acknowledge the hard work she, and the rest of our incredible admin teams work.
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All@of this results in efficiency and ultimately more kiwis (and beyond) being trained properly and better results on the X, in line with our mission, vision and values…
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Ad Salutem - To Save Lives!

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23/09/2025

Every action or lack of, has an outcome…
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Having the confidence to approach and manage an emergency, trauma, medical or environmental can be the difference between life and death.
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This life saved wasn’t CPR, wound packing or tourniquet application, it was taking control of a situation well outside of what normally should have been happening in the normal environment and managing a severe case of hypothermia in a complex environment.
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Receiving paramedics congratulated the responder and noted the patient didn’t have long and was well past the point of self aid.
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This is why we do what we do.
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That’s someone’s child, someone’s parent, brother, cousin, relative or mate.
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That, is an ordinary Kiwi being helped by another ordinary kiwi with some extra ordinary training.
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Ad Salutem - To Save Lives!

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16/09/2025

So here’s the thing…
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Medical events and trauma don’t discriminate, your age, colour and s*x is not relevant to an outcome.
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Your skill set is the defining factor.
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It was an absolute pleasure to have Izzy from train with us today on a Level 2 + Stop the Bleed blended course with the majority of the theory (the why) completed online and the practical skills (the how) refined and tested in person culminating in role player based scenarios.
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What Izzy has built is remarkable, in a male dominated recreational environment she has cultivated a group that supports a judgement free environment that supports women of all ages embarking on an introduction, an often, an addiction of outdoor pursuits.
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In line with our value of setting the market standard we believe what she does is genuinely where it is at and are happy to support her kaupapa of delivering not only the best opportunity for kiwi women to embrace the outdoors, but in doing so, knowing they have the ability to do so with the best possible training at their 6 should things not go to plan.
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Wildchix looking after chix in the wild…
Thank you for what you do Izzy and well done to all of the others who qualified today across NZ.
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We don’t get to pick and choose the time, date or location.
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We don’t rise to the occasion, we simply fall to standard of our training.
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Ad Slautem - To Save Lives!

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12/09/2025

I’ve been getting asked a fair bit about yesterday’s shooting of Charlie Kirk, largely about whether it was survivable or not.
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After watching the initial clip it was pretty clear the likelihood of surviving this was essentially nil.
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There’s two things that stand out for me,
1. the immediate decorticate response (posturing), showing massive vascular and (likely) Central Nervous System damage and,
2. the obvious vascular damage and massive haemorrhage.
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We don’t get to pick and choose, as providers of initial care and assessment, if we should or shouldn’t render aid, within reason, but we must also be realistic about survivability and understanding what is happening in my humble opinion is also important.
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With regards to the mechanism, here’s many factors when dealing with gunshot wounds, projectile type (civilian ammunition has significantly more devastating terminal ballistics), weight, velocity, angle and so on, the reality is though as mentioned by podcast recently, penetrating neck trauma is a nightmare to deal with, especially when the mechanism is high velocity ballistic penetrating trauma.
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Looking at the anatomy of the neck you can easily see why it’s as such, densely clustered critical vascular, neurological and respiratory aspects not to mention the oesophagus.
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Again, the chance of survival is essentially in the negatives.
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Hopefully this helps explain to the layman what’s happening here.
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Regarding the event, Mr. Kirk and his assassination/murder I genuinely feel for his family who were apparently present.
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There’s really no winners in these events, like many others involving acts of violence.
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Ad Slautem - To Save Lives…

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02/09/2025

"Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu." - Adorn the bird with feathers so it may fly.
Thank you to Ruapehu District Councilfor leading this project. We feel privileged to have been part of it, supporting the community with Stop the Bleed® and Remote Areas First Aid training to help strengthen emergency preparedness. We hope these skills are never needed, but being prepared can make all the difference.
To all the students — ka pai te mahi! Thank you for welcoming us onto your whenua and marae, for your willingness to learn, embracing the skills and challenges passed on from our matua, and for sharing your own anecdotes along the way.

05/08/2025

Time…
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Early this evening one of our former students saved someone’s life by packing a significant traumatic junctional injury with associated arterial bleeding.
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Junctional wound packing, although a basic skill is nuanced.
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It is generally taught poorly by pretenders and theorists who have no place delivering this training, it is something that ultimately will only succeed if practical training has been used to confirm theoretical knowledge.
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This one has me feeling a range of emotions as without giving away specifics it was a member of an organisation that we missed out on a contract with recently - only, due to price.
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We will never lower the standard, we only will ever simply out perform our competitors.
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Because New Zealand deserves better.
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In the meantime, our mission continues, as do our students results.
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New Zealand is a better place.
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Well done, well done.
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Ad Salutem - To Save Lives!

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