Category: Trauma
Top 10 trauma papers 2019-2020 for Liverpool Trauma Seminars. St Emlyn’s
This week I am presenting (virtually) at the Liverpool Trauma Seminar. This is a new initiative that aims to provide a multispeciality, multidisciplinary trauma conference in the North West of England. It’s run out of …
JC: AVP in Haemorrhagic Shock. St Emlyn’s
Blood product transfusion can be lifesaving for patients who have suffered major trauma, but the associated side-effects and risks, mean that most people would agree that less is more. This paper by Sim et al …
Resuscitology UK course review. St Emlyn's
This week we ran the inaugural Resuscitology UK course here in Virchester (Ed – everyone knows you mean Manchester 😉 ). Resuscitology UK aims to improve the way we think about resuscitation practice through case …
London Pre-Hospital Care Conference #LTC2019
It’s conference week, and although we started it in Birmingham with the Intensive Care Society State of the Art, we’re now in London at the Royal Geographical Society for the London Trauma Conference. This blog …
REBOA with Zaf Qasim. St Emlyn’s
This week we are publishing a podcast with Zaf Qasim on REBOA. Zaf is a St Emlyn’s team member and Virchester alumnus although he now works over in the US having completed his critical care …
#TacT19: St Emlyn’s on tour with Pete Hulme
I’m not as big a conference attendee like some people I know (Ed – you mean @EMManchester), but when I heard the conference had its own Spotify playlist (featuring the Matrix soundtrack) and saw the …
JC: Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in Head Injury. The CRASH-3 results. St Emlyn’s
St Emlyn’s had sight of a pre-publication copy of the CRASH-3 trial from the trial team. This allowed us to prepare this blog in advance of publication. The trial authors have not been involved in …
JC: Top 10 papers 2018-2019 for #RCEM Annual Scientific Conference. St Emlyn’s
This week the St Emlyn’s team is in Gateshead for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s annual scientific conference. This year I’ve been tasked with putting together the top 10 (plus 1) papers of the …
JC: The metabolic and biochemical characteristics of packed red cell transfusions.
In the UK it’s now standard practice in hypovolaemic/bleeding trauma to use packed red cells as the first line resuscitation fluid. That’s what we keep in the fridge in the emergency department resus room of …
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 available below, or watch the …