The Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance (MICA) program with Ben Meadley

In this conversation I chat to Ben Meadley. Ben has extensive experience in prehospital critical care, and is an operational Intensive Care Flight Paramedic (MICA) with Air Ambulance Victoria. Ben has a keen interest in prehospital critical care, advanced clinical assessment, pre-hospital critical care interventions and developing clinical judgement in critical care practitioners. MICA paramedics’ training goes beyond practical skill precision to include more detail in anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology to greater increase capacity to make independent complex clinical decisions and interventions. MICA paramedics operate either as part of a two person crew or as a single responder. We look at many facets of the MICA system and the differentiation between land MICA and flight MICA systems. We dig down into Ben's experience and empirical knowledge and look at the fundamentals of high performance within the MICA system, why they exist and how they continually improve. I hope you enjoy this conversation.