September Round Up Podcast
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 …
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 …
Our post on the CRASH-3 trial, an RCT examining the use of TXA in head injury, was arguably our most controversial of 2019 (1). Our view was that the evidence …
St Emlyn’s had sight of a pre-publication copy of the CRASH-3 trial from the trial team. This allowed us to prepare this blog in advance of publication. The trial authors …
JC: Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in Head Injury. The CRASH-3 results. St Emlyn’s Read More »
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 »
I’ll keep this post brief. This is not a critical appraisal and it’s not a review. It’s an invite to read a paper I was honoured to help write on …
‘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 »
October has been a stellar month for publication of critical care trials in high impact journals. SPLIT, HEAT and FELLOW have already been FOAMed all over, but that left me …
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 »