TBI: The Final Frontier…
Summer hols and quiet times for many of us at present, so apologies for lack of posts. There is always stuff going on in the background however, and several of …
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November 2021 Podcast Round Up. St Emlyns
Iain is flying solo this month, with discussion about narrative story tellling, airway management in the ED and using pigtail catheters in management of haemothorax. We hope all you all …
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 …
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Trauma in pregnancy: Core knowledge and key skills. St Emlyn’s
written by Anisa Jafar @EmergeMedGlobal and Anthony Joseph “Trauma standby: approximately 34 weeks pregnant female driver, 50 mph road traffic accident, air-bag deployed no obvious injuries, SpO2 99%, HR 95, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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JC: Canadian TIA risk score. St Emlyn’s
We see a lot of patients in the ED with a history of what sounds very much like a transient ischaemic event (TIA). By definition the patient will have had …