The late John Hinds stole the show at SMACC Chicago with his honest and irreverent insights into his personal experience of performing a resuscitative thoracotomy and the sequelae that followed.

The RAGE team sorely misses John’s wisdom and wit, this is how we will remember him – the consummate resuscitationist.

John’s key learning points are words to live by:

• Prepare. Know the evidence.
• Make your intentions honourable.
• Do it.
• Seek out the skeptics.
• Never allow a wanker to bring you down.

John Hinds, we salute you

The RAGE team, the SMACC family, #FOAMed, and the world of critical care has lost one of its smartest, funniest, bravest and most inspirational brethren.

We are lost for words.

Our thoughts are with John’s family.

John we love you, we miss you.

RIP

Irish Road Racing Doctor. Anaesthetist, Intensivist, Prehospitalist, Resuscitationist.

Dr John Hinds, one of the so-called "flying doctors" of Irish road racing, has been killed at a motorcycle event in the Republic of Ireland.

He was involved in an accident while providing medical cover at a Skerries 100 practice session, the Motorcycle Union of Ireland said.

Dr Hinds, from Tandragee, was a consultant at Craigavon Hospital Area Hospital in County Armagh.

He regularly worked at the North West 200 motorbike races in County Antrim.

Dr Hinds, who lectured in trauma science, was taken to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, where he died on Saturday.