No conversation about the evolution of trauma care in the UK is complete without a mention of Karim Brohi, Vascular and Trauma Surgeon, Professor of Trauma Sciences, friend of St Emlyn's and all-round nice chap. His site trauma.org was sharing FOAM for 18 years before it was even called FOAM and he is a fantastic example of how social media can bring expert knowledge to those who need it - tweet him a question on vascular injury or trauma coagulopathy and he'll answer.
A 45 year old man comes off his motorbike on a country road. He is flagged up as major trauma and gets the full works, including WBCT.
Pleiotropic might just be my favourite new word, thus overtaking November's great word 'Glyptotek' (Danish for Sculpture museum). I digress.
The final day of the London Trauma Conference 2014 concentrated on pre-hospital emergency medicine and air ambulance operations. The day was hosted by the Norwegian Air Ambulance and had a mix of Scandinavian and international speakers.
It's been another great day at the London Trauma Conference and we are pretty excited about the podcasts we've recorded today with the friendly and enthusiastic LTC speakers. Missed day 1's podcast?
The press in the UK get rather a bad, well, press. According to Hugh Grant and others the media has rather a lot to answer for, whether it's phone hacking or misreporting and celebrity hyperbole, yet it was with a degree of pride that I picked up my "Press Pass" at the start of the London Trauma Conference.
