The Balmain Hospital General Practice Casualty is a unique casualty style service, staffed and run by local general practitioners. It is a joint initiative of the Central Sydney Area Health Service and the Division of General Practice, Central Sydney Area, and is jointly funded by the Area Health Service and the Commonwealth. The casemix seen and type of services provided suggest that the servi...

A patient who presented with "hyperventilation syndrome" was initially mis-treated as severe crush injury, illustrating the need for thorough assessment of all casualties whilst on exercise prior to arranging casualty treatment and evacuation.

In recent years, several robots have been developed and deployed to perform casualty extraction tasks. However, the majority of these are overly complex, require teleoperation via either a skilled operator or specialised device, often must be present at scene navigate safely around casualty. Instead, improving autonomy such can reduce reliance on expert operators potentially unstable communicat...