Tag: rp4
What is the Bezold-Jarisch Reflex and why do I care?! St Emlyn’s
Bradycardia in the trauma patient can be a perilous sign. One might observe a typical course of events in which a bleeding trauma patient progresses through the compensatory mechanisms in response to shock. It is …
JC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax?
Back in 2016 we published a blog on chest drains and chest aspiration, in which we argued that the dogma of putting in huge drains for traumatic haemothoraces should be questioned. The dogma of using …
Learning from airway management in the ED: UK Perspective
This is the transcript for an invited talk at the recent Difficult Airway Society (DAS) 2021 virtual conference. It was lovely to be invited and great of the organisers to create a multidisciplinary opportunity for …
Bayes and Belief: How pre-review belief influences critical appraisal. St Emlyn’s
I’ve been reflecting on why there is disagreement about how influential new evidence is to clinical practice in the last year or so. COVID-19 has shown that the thresholds for what we believe and when …
JC: Real world cricothyroidotomy experience. St Emlyn’s
Cricothyroidotomy is a procedure that worried many emergency physicians. Partly because it’s a rare procedure, but also because we are likely to embarking on it at a time when things are ‘going wrong’. The most …
Can a prediction model improve major trauma triage? St Emlyn’s
Ed – Tom Shanahan (here in Virchester) recently published a paper on whether a Dutch prediction model is better at identifying major trauma patients than existing methods. The publication provoked an interesting debate on Twitter …
JC: The NoPAC trial. TXA does not work for epistaxis. St Emlyn’s
Over the years we have had more than a passing interest in tranexamic acid. In part because we have been involved in some of the research, recruiting to trials, or acting as principal investigators, but …
JC: Early plasma use in traumatic brain injury. St Emlyn’s
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 pathologies exist and that TBI …
JC: Should we rubber STAAMP prehospital TXA?
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, one argument has just been …
JC: Blood Products in Trauma – What’s the Best (I)TACTIC?
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 newer direct oral anticoagulant treatments …
