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Trauma in the ED

So we were lucky enough to be asked to cover the Trauma Care Conference and specifically today's day focussing on Major Trauma in the Emergency Department. We managed to to get a few minutes of time from some of the superb speakers and get their take home messages from their talks. Enjoy! Relevant Resources TraumaCare PHEMCAST … Read More

REBOA

In this episode we were lucky enough to catch up with Sam Sadek, EM Consultant at The Royal London hospital and HEMS doctor and also Zaf Qasim EM Consultant in Delaware in the United States. Both have been heavily involved in the setup and delivery of REBOA service in their respective posts. In this podcast… Read More

Papers of April 2016

Here's a look at some of the papers that caught our eye this month. We cover the best way to diagnose heart failure, the risks associated with hyperopia and the utility of ETCO2. Take the time to have a look at the papers yourself and leave any feed back or comments at the bottom of… Read More

Hypothermia

Rob Fenwick talks to us about hypothermia right from it's definition through to the the difficulties and dilemmas of treatment. Including whether somebody is dead and cold or cold and dead, enjoy! Simon References Brown, D. J. A., Brugger, H., Boyd, J & Paal, P. (2012) Accidental hypothermia. New England Journal of Medicine. Volume 367,… Read More

Needle Thoracostomy

Needle decompression of a pneumothorax is a time critical and life saving procedure. Classical teaching is to perform this in the 2nd ICS midclavicular line but is this the easiest and most effective place to perform it? In this podcast I speak with Zaf Qasim, an EM physician in the US about the topic and… Read More

Papers of March 2016

Welcome back to March's papers of the month. Below are the papers we're covering in the podcast. Make sure to take a look at the full papers yourself for a full critical appraisal. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). Singer M. JAMA. 2016 Feb 23;315(8):801-10. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.0287. The Sepsis Trust certainly… Read More

Major Trauma; NICE 2016

So NICE has published it's guidelines on 'Major trauma; assessment and initial management', obviously it would be ideal for you to run through the full document yourself but to give you a flavour of the key points that we think will affect our practice here are what we consider to be the headlines; The document Read More

Status Epilepticus

Fitting is a really common reason to attend the Emergency Department. In the vast majority of cases the seizure has terminated before the patient arrives in the ED. But in some cases it’s still on going and by virtue of the length of time it takes for a patient to arrive in your ED that… Read More

Papers of February 2016

Here is a overview of the papers that caught our eye this month and the accompanying podcast. As always make sure you go and check out the papers yourself as this is just a whistle stop tour to wet your appetite, enjoy! Simon Chest wall thickness and decompression failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing… Read More