Rollcage Medic Podcast

Feast your ears and eyes on podcast and vodcast goodness, as I pick the brains of the leading lights of the motor sport medicine and rescue community.

Some will be well known, others working in the background, but all are experts in their field with acres of experience that they are willing to share.

So tune in, turn on and absorb the goodness.

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Podcast 23 - ICMS ACG 2017 Day 1 Part 2

December 30, 2017


This is the second part of a three-part series of summaries that cover the two days of the ICMS Annual General Congress in earlier in December.

The topics covered included human factors, situational awareness and race resource management, research in driver physiology and safety in powerboat racing. Vincenzo Tota wasn't able to come and present his talk on concussion attributed to rigid race seat headrests in DTM cars (you can read about this in an earlier Rollcage Medic article - ) and was replaced instead by Rob Seal who ran a Q&A session on the challenges and opportunities in motorsport medical education.

Here's the podcast


References and resources

The Gorilla video



My Jellybean podcast with Professor of Psychology Ben Newell on cognitive performance and strategies in stressful contexts is not yet published but I'll put a link here and send out an alert once it is. 

Note: I have no conflicts of interest to declare and receive no financial or career gain for any of the products mentioned or referenced in either the text or podcast of this post.

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Conferences 

 

Podcast 22 - ICMS Annual Congress 2017 Day 1 Part 1

December 19, 2017


At the beginning of this month I made the long trip to early winter Indianapolis (yes, it snowed) for the International Council for Motorsport Science (ICMS) Annual General Congress. This is the second time that I have attended this particular conference, the first time having been this time last year. It was good to be able to attend for a second consecutive year and good to catch up with colleagues and friends. 



As it was in 2016, the ICMS AGC was embedded within the much larger Performance ...

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Podcast 21 - Concussion in Motor Sport - A literature review

November 4, 2017



Concussion is an ongoing issue in sport. It has gained a lot of attention over the past few years in turn driving attempts to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Have a look through the “References and resources” section below for previous posts and podcasts concerning concussion on this website.

Most of the work done on sports-related concussion has occurred in field and contact sports, such as rugby, gridiron and horse events. Predictably, there is an increasing awareness of t...

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Podcast 20 - David Dalrymple and Fire - Part II

September 20, 2017
Motorsport championships are heating up. As is the approaching Australian summer. So let's crack on with the second half of the podcast that I recorded with Fire Specialist and Motorsport Rescue Technician, David Dalrymple.


In Part 2 we cover:
  • Fire suppression and extinguishing agents.
  • Standards, recommendations and regulations.
  • The NFPA 610 regulations for fire response at motorsport events.
  • David's forthcoming article on two new mask respirators for fire management safety. David's First Res...

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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Interviews 

 

Podcast 19 - David Dalrymple and Fire - Part 1

September 1, 2017

The speed, the heat, the fumes .... motorsport is great!

Unless the heat and fumes are the cause of a fire and the speed refers to the rate at which the flames are spreading. Then it's really bad.


There are a lot of reasons why a fire can get going during a motorsport event, whether at the scene of a crash or somewhere in the paddock or service park. We rely on the presence of knowledgeable and experienced fire marshals to have our backs (and fronts, sides, tops and underparts), but wouldn't i...
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Podcast 18 - The competitor's perspective with Karl Reindler

July 10, 2017


What's it like to crash at over 150kph? What's it like to be crashed into? What about being engulfed in a fireball while strapped into your seat by a combination of a 6-point harness, communications wiring, ventilation and drinks tubing and a window safety net? And what is it like to have a medical response team haul you out of your broken car and start working on you right there?

If you race for long enough and push hard enough there is a statistical likelihood that this will happen at some p...

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Podcast 17 - Naomi Deakin and Research in Motorsport Medicine

May 20, 2017

Naomi Deakin is a trauma fellow pursuing a PhD in England. No strange thing amongst doctors who are trying to carve out a place and career for themselves. Except that few choose motorsport medicine as an area to chase down that higher qualification. And yet why not? It's a fertile area full of possible aspects to explore.

Yet if you go looking for clinical advancement topics in motorsport your search will not take too long. There's just not that much too be found. This is odd for a profession ...
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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Interviews 

 

Motorcycle rescue sim from SMACC Dublin 2016

April 2, 2017

Training as a team is really important. Technical skills are honed, communication becomes targeted and succinct and deficits are identified and can be troubleshot. Organising and running team training sessions takes a lot of work and commitment on everyone's part, but it pays dividends.

The Social Media And Critical Care (SMACC) conference does its best to evolve each year and seeks to explore some of the outer edge areas of acute care medicine. Last year's conference was held in Dublin and am...

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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Conferences 

 

Podcast 16 - Michael Hoffer and Virtual Reality for concussion

February 10, 2017
(Image from Dr S. Olvey's presentation slides at the ICMS 2016 AGM)

More concussion. We can't get enough of it. It has mushroomed over the past few years and is firmly in the public awareness, especially amongst sports competitors.

Until recently, there have been two levels of diagnosis; point of care and clinic-based. Point of care testing occurs on the sidelines or in the event medical centre and needs to be:
  • rapid,
  • easily applied,
  • cheap,
  • easily accessible
  • and have good test characteristics (...

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Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin. Posted In : Interviews 

 

Podcast 15 - Fabian Berger, tornado jets and human factors training

December 3, 2016


Fabian Berger is a tornado pilot with the German air force and amateur race car driver. He is also an aircraft accident investigator.

He was inspired to take his aviation experience of simulator based training, crew resource management (Fabian calls it Race Resource Management to better contextualise it) and human factors education to race officials and motorsport medics, so that's what he did through the DMSB in Germany.

I caught up with him after his talk at the FIA Institute's chief medica...
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