All of the St Emlyn’s Blog and Podcast content that relates to trauma & orthopaedics.
Can children with abdominal pain, vomiting, or tenderness avoid CT? We review PECARN’s latest insights into low-risk paediatric trauma.
Evaluating the PECARN Abdominal Trauma Rule in the grey zone…. Read More
The latest St Emlyn’s podcast with discussion about Bougies, cardiac arrest, trauma, sepsis, race and medicine and choosing with intention
Review of an RCT of serratus anterior plane blocks in the emergency department for chest/rib injury. Is this now a standard of care?
Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for rib fractures in the Emergency Department Read More
Does the pattern of injury from e-scooters differ to cyclists?
E-scooter injury patterns – are they different and does it matter? Read More
How do expert clinicians make decisions about prehospital blood transfusion. This critical appraisal of a paper helps answer this question.
Prehospital transfusion decision making Read More
Prof. Dan Horner @ExRCEMProf critically appraises the CRYOSTAT-2 trial. Does early CRYOPRECIPITATE work in major trauma?
CRYOSTAT-2 @ St Emlyns Read More
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
Can clinical examination identify life-threatening injuries? Read More
The TOP-ART trial of Artesunate in the treatment of bleeding trauma patients. This RCT shows no benefit and potential harm, but it may be more complex than that. Further work may be needed on immunomodulation in bleeding trauma patients.
TOP-ART study: Artesunate for bleeding trauma patients Read More
