All of the St Emlyn’s Blog and Podcast content that relates to major trauma.
This week we have released a podcast on trauma team leadership that focuses on the management of trauma patients in the ED, and in particular a focus on getting patients […]
Podcast – Trauma Team Leadership – Getting to CT in 30 minutes. Read More
For reasons which I can’t discuss here I’m quite interested in the incidence of pituitary axis dysfunction following head injury, and indeed in the outcomes following all severities of head
JC: Anterior pituitary disorder following head injury Read More
Ladies and Gentlemen! The assessment and investigation of paediatric head injury is a case study in clinical risk management. Similar to chest pain in grown up medicine, it’s a frequent
JC: Duel of the Rules: Which decision rule for head injury in children? Read More
In the last few days Twitter has been buzzing (does twitter buzz? Or does it chirp? Tweet?) with EM practitioners getting to grips with the latest iteration of the NICE
JC: Updated NICE Head Injury Guidelines – Worth a Scan? Read More
Here in Virchester we believe that families are important. Natalie has written before about the benefits of family presence during paediatric resuscitation and it’s pretty much standard practice in both
JC: Family presence for Brain Death Evaluation. St.Emlyn’s Read More
We already know that patients taking warfarin are at very high risk of intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) after head injury, and that delayed bleeds aren’t so uncommon either. In fact, we’ve
JC: Clopidogrel + head injury = CT? Read More
The diagnosis and treatment of patients with a head injury whilst on anticoagulants.
Minor Head Injury and Anticoagulants -You Snooze, You Ooze Read More
