Effective trauma team leaders don’t just manage tasks, they manage time. This tip explains how to give the team clear, realistic milestones and shared priorities without creating pressure to rush or take shortcuts.
TTL Tips 13: Set your team specific time goals Read More
Situational awareness is a core trauma team leadership skill. Learn how high-performing TTLs use perception, comprehension, and projection to stay proactive in trauma resuscitation.
TTL tips 12: Thinking ahead Read More
Paradoxically hypothermia has been a ‘hot’ topic in emergency medicine and critical care for many years. There is good laboratory, animal and pathophysiological data to suggest that it should be
JC: Hypothermia in brain injury: The POLAR trial. St Emlyn’s. Read More
That your “drunk” patient with presumed alcohol intoxication is not simply drunk but in fact has a different, potentially life-threatening cause for their reduced conscious level is a lesson best
This is another guest blog from our friend and colleague Andy Volans, Consutlant in Emergency Medicine. We’ve all been subjected to the challenge of the “Expert Patient”. Our GP
How to manage your boss (the expert patient in the ED). St.Emlyn’s Read More
The management of stroke is one of those topics that attracts a great deal of controversy in the #FOAMed world, and with good reason. The questions around the use of
JC: Platelets for Intracranial Haemorrhage. St.Emlyn’s Read More
‘Why did you give Mannitol?’ asked the Registrar. ‘Hypertonic saline was the standard of care for head injury at St.Elsewhere and I was told it reduced mortality’. OK, so that’s
JC: Salt or Sugar? Hypertonic saline for head injury at St.Emlyn’s. Read More
Today, to much excitement, we saw the release of the NICE major trauma guidance. Nat did an excellent review of the draft guidance, which you can read here. We now
Robocop gets the NICE 2016 major trauma treatment. St.Emlyn’s Read More
