Category: Trauma
Torso Trauma tips and the BASICS North West conference 2018. St Emlyn’s
Not every conference has to be huge, multimedia and international, there is a lot to be said for local conferences. This week I attended the BASICS North West regional conference1. Here are some of my …
“To Protect and Serve…and Drop Off”. Penetrating Trauma in Philadelphia. St Emlyn’s
Penetrating trauma is a rising problem on both sides of the Atlantic – just tune into any of the major news channels to see the effect. Its increasing burden on US prehospital deaths from 2007 …
Top 10 trauma papers 2017-2018 for @traumacareUK conference. St Emlyn’s
This week I am at the Trauma Care UK conference. If you’ve not been to this one then you should, it’s friendly, great value and aims to influence and engage with all aspects of trauma …
Journal Club – Trauma CT in Paediatric Patients
I have a confession to make – I once requested a whole body CT (WBCT) in a paediatric patient. [Yes, yes, I know!] To be fair, we didn’t know he was a paediatric patient at …
CRYOSTAT-2 with Ross Davenport
You might be aware that an exciting new trial has started called Cryostat-2. This is exciting as it has the potential to improve patient outcomes, but also because it will involve all the Major Trauma …
St.Emlyn’s goes further north – NEM Conference #NEMC18
It’s the second time I’ve been to the Northern Emergency Medicine conference, this year held in the sunny city of Durham. I say sunny… I needed my jacket. Last year’s programme was great and included …
104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s
Firstly, the title of this post is not a typo. When I collated the reflective lessons from my series of Sydney HEMS blog posts I realised there were actually 104, not 101. Apologies for the …
JC : Paracetamol, NSAID’s or both in MSK trauma. St.Emlyn’s
Pain… patients complain about it… A LOT. It’s the commonest reason for attending emergency departments across the globe so we should be (and need to be) pretty good at treating it. With that in mind I …
JC: Does earlier TXA save lives? St.Emlyn’s
Administration of tranexamic acid (TXA) is integral part of the management for major trauma patients in the UK. It is deemed such an important aspect that its administration is used as a quality indicator to …
JC: The VTE and Major Trauma. St.Emlyn’s
All good EM/CC clinicians know that venous thrombo embolism (VTE) is a potential complication of traumatic injury. The immobilisation and haematological changes associated with signficant injury are reasonably well described. Additionally there are controversies over …