There seems to be a lot of really interesting papers on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) this year. A welcome relief from COVID 19 perhaps but also a reminder that other […]
JC: Early plasma use in traumatic brain injury. St Emlyn’s Read More
If you’re an avid follower of FOAM, you’ll have seen many assertions that manual pulse checks by healthcare providers during cardiac arrest are pretty unreliable at best. The most commonly
JC: Finger on the Pulse? Read More
This post is co-published with our friends at REBEL EM. Background: It almost seems that when it comes to the use of the antifibrinolytic agent tranexamic acid (TXA) in trauma,
JC: Should we rubber STAAMP prehospital TXA? Read More
Bleeding trauma patients present a couple of challenges to us in the Emergency Department. Increasingly, our aging population continues to engage in energetic daily pursuits while increasing numbers are prescribed
JC: Blood Products in Trauma – What’s the Best (I)TACTIC? Read More
Welcome to our audio round up of everything on the blog during September. It’s been a relatively quiet on the blog post this month, but we chat through not only
Podcast – September 2020 Monthly Round Up Read More
That’s a leading question. Of course you would. Who wouldn’t want to know more about a disease that has killed >1 million people to date, worldwide. Who wouldn’t want to know more
VTE and COVID-19: Would you like to know more? Read More
We previously covered the RECOVERY trial press release on the use of HCQ for hospitalised patients with COVID19. This is a UK based platform trial (more on this later) looking
JC: Hydroxychloroquine in the the treatment of hospitalised COVID19 patients. Read More
Appendicitis is a common problem in the emergency department, and for many years the standard of care has been to perform surgery to resolve it. When I trained in surgery
JC: Antibiotics or Surgery for appendicitis. Read More
