I was recently discussing the management of traumatic cardiac arrest with one of my junior colleagues and was surprised to hear that they had not heard of impact brain apnoea …
Impact Brain Apnoea with Gareth Davies from London HEMS. St.Emlyn’s Read More »
Pleiotropic might just be my favourite new word, thus overtaking November’s great word ‘Glyptotek’ (Danish for Sculpture museum). I digress. Pleiotropic is a word used to describe the ability of …
JC: Progesterone’s pleiotropic failure in head injury. St.Emlyn’s Read More »
Regular readers will be aware that Virchester is primarily based in the heartland of the industrial North of England, but in an audacious merger they joined forces with one the …
All Shook Up – Diffuse Axonal Injury with John Hell Read More »
The diagnosis and management of major trauma in the elderly is a really hot topic in Emergency Medicine right now.  Compared to younger patients, the elderly can sustain much more serious …
JC: When a subdural needs surgery in the elderly. St. Emlyn’s Read More »
For reasons which I can’t discuss here I’m quite interested in the incidence of pituitary axis dysfunction following head injury, and indeed in the outcomes following all severities of head …
JC: Anterior pituitary disorder following head injury. St.Emlyn’s Read More »
In the last few days Twitter has been buzzing (does twitter buzz? Or does it chirp? Tweet?) with EM practitioners getting to grips with the latest iteration of the NICE …
JC: Updated NICE Head Injury Guidelines – Worth a Scan? Read More »
We already know that patients taking warfarin are at very high risk of intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) after head injury, and that delayed bleeds aren’t so uncommon either. Â In fact, we’ve …
We’re lucky to have NICE guidelines in the UK. A couple of years ago, on a visit to the US, one of my collaborators from the US mentioned how jealous …
You Snooze, You Ooze: Anticoagulants and Minor Head Injury Read More »
