E-scooter injuries, children and safeguarding. St Emlyn’s
8 min read
Journal Club review of a public health paper on e-scooter injuries and they risk they pose to patients, especially children and the implications for EM. #FOAMed
Ep 300 – Decisions Under Pressure: Knowing When to Act in Emergency Care
15 min read17 min listen
How do you decide when you don't have all the information? Iain Beardsell revisits Tactical Trauma to explore the judgements behind major incident care, triage, eCPR and trauma ECMO.
TTL Tip 22: Graded Assertiveness
2 min read
Communication is SO important in the resus room. Making sure that your message is heard and understood is really important.
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TTL tips 21: Catastrophic Bleeding from the midface
2 min read
A practical guide to the “stacking” technique for catastrophic midface bleeding in an intubated patient. Covers airway protection, facial support and nasal balloon tamponade, alongside the team and equipment needed for this temporary rescue measure.
JC: IV or IO first in cardiac arrest? St Emlyn’s
12 min read
What does pooled patient-level evidence from PARAMEDIC3 and IVIO tell us about which vascular access route to try first? Simon Carley examines survival, neurological outcomes and the practical limits of the findings for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Ep 299 – Which patients with chest pain need a troponin test?
8 min read20 min listen
Which patients with chest pain actually need a troponin? Rick Body looks at how much we can trust the history, cardiovascular risk factors and our own clinical judgement before deciding to test.
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