Review the top 11 trauma and resuscitation trials discussed at ICEM 2025. Expert summaries and critical appraisals from St Emlyn’s cover transfusion strategies, airway management, oxygenation, fibrinogen, and more.
Top 10 trauma/resus papers for IFEM 2025 Read More
Can you perform a life-saving thoracotomy without ICU, theatre, or specialist staff?
A new study from Cape Town shows it’s possible — and often successful — even in district hospitals facing high trauma burdens.
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Emergency Centre Thoracotomy in South Africa. Read More
Emergency care is more pressured than ever—but is compassion being lost in the chaos? This post explores the reality of compassion fatigue, the systemic and cultural barriers to empathy, and practical, evidence-based strategies to reconnect with patients in meaningful ways.
Is there still room for compassion in emergency care? Read More
Emergency departments (EDs) often seem to shift from calm to crisis in an instant. Why? This article explores ED crowding through the lens of complexity science and self-organised criticality, explaining how minor changes—like a few extra patients—can trigger disproportionate chaos.
Self-Organised Criticality: Why your ED is like a Sand Pile Read More
The simplified BATT (sBATT) score offers a practical trauma triage tool for use in motor vehicle collisions where monitoring equipment may be unavailable. Derived from the original BATT score and validated on over 70,000 UK patients, the sBATT shows excellent performance in predicting early death using only observable signs. Ideal for lay responders, trapped patients, and low-resource settings, this novel tool could help guide early trauma care and emergency dispatch.
Derivation and Validation of the Simplified Bleeding Audit Triage Trauma (sBATT) Score Read More
ENT emergencies, extended duty of care and the medicolegal implications of being vicariously injured, sodium balance and regulation, neuroradiology and disaster and counter-terrorism medicine
Paediatric Emergencies Update 2024 – Noosa Day 2 & 3 Read More
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts on new research in emergency toxicology. The last post was about ketamine analgesia in chronic opioid users and can be
Acute behavioural disturbances: olanzapine or haloperidol? Read More
Recorded at the London Trauma Conference 2024, Peter Brindley discusses social media, artifical intelligence (AI) and how those working in medicine can (and must) navigate this new world.
Podcast – Social Media and Artifical Intelligence in Medicine with Peter Brindley at LTC Read More
