Lateral trauma position
The tradition of transporting trauma patients to hospital in a supine position may not be the safest approach in obtunded […]
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Trauma
Care of severely injured patient
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Capillary refill time
A review of capillary refill time (CRT) reveals some interesting details about this test: CRT is affected by age – […]
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Prehospital Spine Immobilisation for Penetrating Trauma
The Executive Committee of Prehospital Trauma Life Support, comprised of surgeons, emergency physicians, and paramedics, has reviewed the literature and […]
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Pre-hospital thoracotomy
The London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service provides a physician / paramedic team to victims of trauma. One of the interventions […]
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Exsanguinating cardiac arrest not always fatal
The British Military has developed a reputation for aggressive pre-hospital critical care including (but not limited to) the use of […]
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Trauma mortality and systolic BP
Here’s some further evidence that a ‘lowish’ – as opposed to a low – systolic blood pressure is a reason […]
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Score to predict traumatic coagulopathy
Acute traumatic coagulopathy (ATC) is present in up to 25% of major trauma patients by the time they arrive in […]
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Surgeons and trauma teams
There can be issues associated with calling surgeons to trauma team activations in the ED, including interruption to the surgeon’s […]
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CRASH-2 and head injury
The overall effect of the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid on outcome from major trauma was assessed in the CRASH-2 trial, […]
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Snakebite Guideline
The Australian Resuscitation Council has released guidelines on snakebite envenomation, and on pressure immobilisation of snakebite wounds. Envenomation Pressure Immobilisation […]