Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in Head Injury: CRASH-3 results
A review of the CRASH-3 trial and whether tranexamic acid (TXA) is of benefit in traumatic brain injury patients.
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Prehospital Care
All of the St Emlyn’s Blog and Podcast content that relates to prehospital care (PHEM).
#RCEMasc 2019 Day 2
After a great first day (which you can read about on the day one blog here), we reconvened in Sage, Gateshead for day 2 of the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference.
New Zero Point Survey Video from Cliff Reid. St Emlyn’s
We’ve championed the Zero Point Survey (1,2,3,4) here on the blog and in all our simulation teaching in Virchester. If you’ve been following the blog you will hopefully be familiar
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JC: Macintosh vs. McGrath laryngoscopy in pre-hospital care.
There has been an ongoing debate about the use of video laryngoscopy (VL) in emergency and critical care1–4. Proponents speak of the better visibility and ability to teach using video
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Psychological performance in the resus room. Ashley Liebig at #stemlynsLIVE
This talk focuses on how we can optimise our psychological performance in critical care situations, the type of situations that Simon describes as Time Critical, Information light. The Audio is
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Should we use chest compressions in traumatic cardiac arrest?
This is a question that we’ve addressed on the blog before and the evidence has been a little conflicting1–6. From a pathophysiological perspective the logic of using closed chest compressions
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JC: Why do bleeding trauma patients die? St Emlyn’s
Just a quick JC blog post this week to point you to an editorial written by Karim Brohi and John Holcomb on why, and when, patients die of trauma. The
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What’s the bleeding problem with trauma laparotomies?!
Mortality for hypotensive trauma patients undergoing emergency laparotomy have not changed in 20 years. This blog explores the literature and the future!
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