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
How does this improve training for young surgeons? And your er doctors in training..? Is it airway breathing ct scan..the new algorithm. Now many elderly get man scanned..but how many intoxicated patients who are awake with isolated head injuries will get man scanned? What happened to physical exam? What happened to serial exams..neuro and abdominal? What happened to the extended fast? What about the patient who walked in and polytrauma? There has to be a line of wise judgment? What do you do in austere environments? Over reliance of pan scanned will ill prepare you for clinical judgment no? What vital injuries were missed when man scans not done? Did mortality or morbidity change really? Units of blood needed when it wasn’t or vice versa? Patient paralyzed by missed fractured spine or not? Things to think about. Pan scans..not a new topic in the USA. Bet the trauma seen in Hong Kong may be much different than in some cities in USA?
I’m not sure in any emergency system this is up for debate, is it?
BUT, who not to do them on is the gazillion $ question. I constantly run into battles with respect to junior alumni of major trauma units just pan scanning the proverbial shite out of anything that trips into the department.
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Non- tropical Australian based ED physician
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