Stephen Hearns
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Emergency & aeromedical consultant. Arrochar Mountain Rescue. Book - Peak Performance Under Pressure
Scotland
Joined September 2012
3 years,the odd late night,multiple revisions & a few tantrums later,its finally here. Peak Performance Under Pressure is now available on #Amazon. Own the Pressure & The Arc of Performance. Thank you to everyone for their support in getting me here.
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Teams in high pressure situations perform more effectively with a shared & accurate mental model. However, if we were to press a pause button & ask each person what their mental model is we would get very different personal mental models, in exactly the same situation. Here’s why
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RT @SullyFireRescue: Using checklists has strangely been seen as a sign of weakness in the fire brigade. But would you really prefer relyi….
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Many see pre-procedural checklists solely as a tool for checking equipment . In EMRS we monitored the heart rate of clinicians during our pre-anaesthetic checklist. 100% of clinicians experienced a fall in heart rate. Here's why.
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We’re running the first Performance Under Pressure course in Ireland . Mater Hospital Dublin 18th October.
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Core Cognition is returning to Australia. Performance Under Pressure Course Adelaide 1st and 2nd December 2025. This course is already half full. Only 10 places remaining.
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RT @RCEMpresident: For every 72 people waiting 8-12 hours before admission there is one additional death within 30….
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Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient...
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Pleased to be part of this study and publication on the value of mental rehearsal in improving performance in high pressure situations. Great work by the team in Germany following one of our Core Cognition performance under pressure courses.
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OBJECTIVES Mental practice, a cognitive technique for practicing skills without physical movement, holds promise for enhancing clinical outcomes in emergency me...
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RT @LomondMRT: Many thanks to @StephenHearns1 for making time to share the incredible work of the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS….
emrsscotland.org
Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) saves lives by providing critical care and safe transfer to definitive treatment for patients in remote healthcare locations and at accident...
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RT @SportsDocSkye: @cautiousstoat @thepaulwilliams This looks odd but is actually great prep. All high pressure practitioners think about….
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This just arrived. Packed with high performance information and references. Looks like an excellent resource.
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Mental visualisation is a powerful tool for performance in high pressure situations. It is particularly useful in preparing ourselves for HALO tasks. React more quickly, complete the task faster and have less errors.
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20th anniversary celebrations for @EMRSscotland starring our very own @AnneCadman. 20yrs of aeromedical retrieval caring for the critically ill in Scotland’s remote communities & providing prehospital critical care for major trauma patients at the site of their accidents
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RT @gareth_grier: Bryony has made an astonishing contribution to prehospital medicine, with an impact across the world. Thank you @BryonyDu….
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A pleasure to speak to the students of @PHMMSc Masters in Pre-hospital care this morning. We discussed memory under pressure, decision making, task execution, simulation, drilling and mental visualisation in relstion to high pressure prehospital scenes.
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At #TacTrauma24 I talked about preparing for high performance in high pressure situations. Preserve you cognitive capacity through drilling, mental visualisation and emergency actions cards. A 2 minute video on the Performance Pizza model
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5th anniversary of the publication of Peak Performance. So pleased that the book has been of interest in medicine, policing, fire fighting, the military, veterinary medicine, SAR and business settings. Grateful for the opportunities the book has opened up for me personally.
3 years,the odd late night,multiple revisions & a few tantrums later,its finally here. Peak Performance Under Pressure is now available on #Amazon. Own the Pressure & The Arc of Performance. Thank you to everyone for their support in getting me here.
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Just booked The Social Hub in Glasgow City Centre for the Resuscitation Performance course . Brand new hotel & events venue in Glasgow city centre. Ideal for Core Cognition courses.
thesocialhub.co
Looking for a stylish hotel, thriving student accommodation or a space to work, meet, eat and drink? There's room for everyone at The Social Hub Glasgow.
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Last night’s bothy. @clydesidewhisky very fitting as 20th anniversary of @EMRSscotland this month. The distillery is next to our original heliport and retrieval base
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