TTL tips 4: Code Red
TTL tip 4 is about getting your CODE RED instructions right, by developing the right mindset about what you want to achieve and why.
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Trauma & Orthopaedics
All of the St Emlyn’s Blog and Podcast content that relates to trauma & orthopaedics.
Evaluating the PECARN Abdominal Trauma Rule in the grey zone….
Can children with abdominal pain, vomiting, or tenderness avoid CT? We review PECARN’s latest insights into low-risk paediatric trauma.
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Podcast – April 2024 Monthly Round Up – Bougies, cardiac arrest, trauma, sepsis, race and medicine, and choosing with intention
The latest St Emlyn’s podcast with discussion about Bougies, cardiac arrest, trauma, sepsis, race and medicine and choosing with intention
Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for rib fractures in the Emergency Department
Review of an RCT of serratus anterior plane blocks in the emergency department for chest/rib injury. Is this now a standard of care?
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E-scooter injury patterns – are they different and does it matter?
Does the pattern of injury from e-scooters differ to cyclists?
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Prehospital transfusion decision making
How do expert clinicians make decisions about prehospital blood transfusion. This critical appraisal of a paper helps answer this question.
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CRYOSTAT-2 @ St Emlyns
Prof. Dan Horner @ExRCEMProf critically appraises the CRYOSTAT-2 trial. Does early CRYOPRECIPITATE work in major trauma?
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Can clinical examination identify life-threatening injuries?
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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