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 […]
JC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax? Read More »
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,
Trauma in pregnancy: Core knowledge and key skills. St Emlyn’s Read More »
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
Bayes and Belief: How pre-review belief influences critical appraisal. St Emlyn’s Read More »
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
JC: Real world cricothyroidotomy experience. St Emlyn’s Read More »
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
JC: The NoPAC trial. TXA does not work for epistaxis. St Emlyn’s Read More »
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
JC: Canadian TIA risk score. St Emlyn’s Read More »
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
JC: Early plasma use in traumatic brain injury. St Emlyn’s Read More »
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
JC: TXA in severe head injury. St Emlyn’s Read More »
