Trauma & Orthopaedics

Following SMACC 2013 in Sydney I was fortunate enough to spend a day with the team at Ambulance Service New South Wales' Great Sydney Area HEMS based at Bankstown airport. If you have not discovered this fantastic group of clinicians before then you should.

There are a few blog posts that seem to stick in the mind more than others, and certainly ones that I direct colleagues back to on a regular basis. One of these for me (and I suspect for many others) is the post from Cliff Reid back in July 2012 looking at Life, Limb and Sight saving procedures.

Just a quick post in reply to the post on Academic Life in Emergency Medicine where Michelle Lin and colleagues described how to remove a Tungsten ring by crushing it - they're strong, but brittle apparently.

I was listening to the EMCRIT podcast today. As usual, it was absolutely excellent, but on this occasion, it was especially superb as Scott Weingart was joined by the wonderful Prof. Tim Coates from Leicester.