Natalie May and Iain Beardsell review the opening day of the 2015 London Trauma Conference in this report and podcast. Highlights include older trauma patients, human factors, brain and spinal injury, mass-casualty care and why effective systems matter more than any single intervention.
London Trauma Conference #LTC2015 – Day One Read More
Dr Youri Yordanov describes the emergency department response to the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015. This podcast introduction and accompanying resources focus on organising teams and caring for critically injured casualties arriving without warning at an already busy Saint Antoine hospital.
Learning from the Paris Attacks with Dr Youri Yordanov. St.Emlyn’s Read More
The EUROTHERM trial tested therapeutic hypothermia for raised intracranial pressure after traumatic brain injury and stopped early after evidence of harm. This 2015 appraisal examines neurological outcomes, trial design and why the timing and position of cooling within an escalation strategy matter when interpreting the results.
JC: EuroTHERM or EuroBURNED. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Does helping someone out of a car reduce cervical spine movement compared with self-extrication? This 2015 appraisal examines a small biomechanical study of six techniques, while emphasising that uninjured volunteers cannot establish which approach is safest for patients with pain or spinal injury.
JC: Self extrication vs. assisted extrication. St.Emlyn’s Read More
An August 2015 overview of NICE’s draft major trauma guidance during its stakeholder consultation. The post summarises the proposed approach to airway care, bleeding, imaging, analgesia and communication, and explains how clinicians could comment; it records the consultation rather than the final or current guidance.
Major Trauma – Have your say on the NICE guidance for Major Trauma Read More
Remembering John Hinds through his SMACC Chicago 2015 talk, ‘Crack the Chest. Get Crucified.’ This brief tribute shares the recording and thanks the conference team for making his teaching available to the wider FOAMed community.
John Hinds: Crack the Chest. Get Crucified. Read More
Highlights from the 2015 neuroanaesthesia and critical care meeting in Manchester, with a focus on collaboration around traumatic brain injury. Dan Horner reflects on variation in practice, fatigue and situational awareness, specialist intensive care, tracheostomy safety and communication with patients who experience awareness during anaesthesia.
Neurocritical care in Manchester NASGBI and St.Emlyn’s Read More
Simon Carley selects ten trauma papers from 2014–2015, with an accompanying discussion with Simon Laing. The review spans transfusion, brain injury, prehospital care, airway management, haemorrhage prediction and thoracotomy, linking to the original studies and highlighting questions raised by this period’s trauma research.
Top 10 Trauma papers 2014-2015. St.Emlyn’s Read More
