Author name: Simon Carley

Simon Carley MB ChB, PGDip, DipIMC (RCS Ed), FRCS (Ed)(1998), FHEA, FAcadMed, FRCEM, FTACC, MPhil, MD, PhD is Creator, Webmaster, owner and Editor in Chief of the St Emlyn’s blog and podcast. He has a MAHSC Professorship from the University of Manchester and is visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Hew is a Consultant in adult and paediatric Emergency Medicine at Manchester Foundation Trust and a HEMS consultant with North West Air Ambulance. He is co-founder of BestBets, St.Emlyns and the MSc in emergency medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is an Education Associate with the General Medical Council. His research interests include diagnostics, MedEd, Major incidents & Evidence based Emergency Medicine. He is verified on twitter as @EMManchester

JC: Can clinical examination identify life threatening injuries? St Emlyn’s

Can clinicians identify life threatening injury in trauma patients? Probably not as reliably as we would wish according to this paper from London. Even in an experienced high performing EHPC team it’s tricky to discern which patients have life threatening, limb threatening or significant bleeding injuries. #FOAMed @stemlyns

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