London Trauma Conference 2014 Part 1
I’ve travelled almost the entire length of England to get to the London Trauma Conference this year. What could be […]
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Guidelines on prehospital drug-assisted LMA insertion
The UK’s Faculty of Prehospital Care has published a number of consensus guidelines in this month’s EMJ Dr Minh Le […]
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London Calling – part 2
Notes from Days 2 & 3 of the London Trauma Conference Day 2 of the LTC was really good. There […]
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Head injury was not predictive for cervical spine injury
Two papers examining the same massive European trauma dataset identify risk factors for spinal injury. The first examined all spinal […]
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Spinal imaging for the adult obtunded blunt trauma patient
‘You can’t clear the cervical spine until the patient wakes up!’ How often have you heard this said about a […]
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Another reason to be skeptical about collars
More evidence that the obsession with cervical collars is founded on dogma rather than science Background All trauma patients with […]
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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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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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Risk factors for cervical spine injury
Data from the Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) database were analysed to identify epidemiologic and biomechanical risk factors for cervical […]
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Neck movement in spite of collar
A cadaveric study using an artificially created unstable cervical spine injury has shown marked displacement of the vertebrae when cervical […]