London Calling – part 3
Notes from Day 4 of the London Trauma Conference The highlight for me was Mr Jonny Morrison speaking on Resuscitative […]
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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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A whole bunch of trauma guidelines
Image: Operating theatre by Piotr Bodzek, MD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Eastern Association for the Surgery of […]
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Prehospital ketamine analgesia
Image: Ketamine Vials by Psychonaught, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons A prospective open-label randomised controlled trial in prehospital patients receiving morphine […]
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Needle decompression: it's still not going to work
A pet topic that keeps coming up here is management of tension pneumothorax. Plenty of studies demonstrate that traditionally taught […]
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Thoracoabdominal trauma outcomes
Image: The topographical anatomy of the thorax and abdomen of the horse (Page 97) BHL9403829 by Bradley, O. Charnock, public […]
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What is 'hypotension' in penetrating trauma?
Image: 2020 Sfigmomanometr elektroniczny by Jacek Halicki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I previously noted an article demonstrating that […]
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Is it time to abandon plain radiography in the trauma room?
Image: Garfield X-ray machine by Harris & Ewing, photographer, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons For patients who will be having […]
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The Bleeding Trauma Patient
The Bleeding Trauma Patient by Dr Pete Sherren By popular request, Here are the slides from a presentation given by […]
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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 […]