Pilot-administered anaesthesia and the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia: An interview with Captain Keith Galloway

The lack of radio navigational aids in early Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft in Australia occasionally resulted in aircraft being stranded at a remote site with a critically injured patient due to weather and other conditions. For a brief period in the 1950s, at least one Royal Flying Doctor Se...

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Published in:Anaesthesia and intensive care 2021-09, Vol.49 (1_suppl), p.25-28
Main Authors: Redmond, Michael J, Potter, Thomas A, Bradley, James P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aircraft
Ambulance services
Anesthesia
Anesthetists
Australia
Critical care
Disaster medicine
History of medicine
Humans
Pilots
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Summary:The lack of radio navigational aids in early Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft in Australia occasionally resulted in aircraft being stranded at a remote site with a critically injured patient due to weather and other conditions. For a brief period in the 1950s, at least one Royal Flying Doctor Service pilot was trained to administer anaesthesia to critically ill patients who could not be immediately evacuated. The aim of this paper is to describe the circumstances in which this arose and how it worked in practice. This is based largely on the recollections of pilot anaesthetist Captain Keith Galloway, who shared his recollections during interviews with the authors.
ISSN:0310-057X
1448-0271
DOI:10.1177/0310057X211015690