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JC: Conservative management of chest trauma. #FOAMed from St Emlyn's in Virchester

We have previously blogged on the topic of chest tube/drain management1. In on of our most widely read posts we argued that many pneumothoraces can be managed without a chest drain. When trained as a junior doctor in Virchester the presence of a pneumothorax in a trauma patient was an absolute indication for a chest drain, since that time we have changed. We CT a lot more patients than we ever…

JC: UK traumatic cardiac arrest stats. St.Emlyn’s

Hot on the heels of our recent journal club article ‘cut or push’1 on the management of traumatic cardiac arrest 2  comes this paper from our friends and colleagues in the UK. My conflict of interest is that I know and hugely respect most of the authors on this paper. I recently had chance to briefly chat with the very wise Ed Barnard and Jason Smithand I go back years to my time with the Army.…

Chest drains & aspiration: Do it better with St.Emlyn’s

    This is just a quickie to support some local teaching in Virchester on chest drain insertion, or intercostal drains if you prefer additional consonants or chest tubes if you are from the land of the Trump. Anyway chest drains are one of those procedures that are rare enough that we need to think about, but common enough that we really should be expert in. There is also no doubt that having a…

JC: Push or Cut? Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

The management of traumatic cardiac arrest has been a popular topic over the past few years and featured in numerous social media and conferences. We’ve talked about here at St.Emlyn’s too1. Various algorithms exist and I’m sure those working in the field of trauma are au fait with them. Outcomes from this procedure are variable, with a significantly worse outcome in the blunt trauma group. Apape…

Robocop gets the NICE 2016 major trauma treatment. St.Emlyn’s

Today, to much excitement, we saw the release of the NICE major trauma guidance.  Nat did an excellent review of the draft guidance, which you can read here.  We now have the full guideline which you can download from this link.

You can also download our infographic by clicking on the picture below. Remember that this is just a quick update. Please visit the NICE guideline site, look at the…

London Trauma Conference day 3. St.Emlyn’s

As Simon, Iain and Nat had to return to the real world the St.Emlyn’s team have adopted a Virchester alumnus to keep us up to date at the London Trauma Conference. Take it away Chris……….

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Helicopters abound in the third day of the London Trauma Conference, which is dedicated to Air Ambulances and…

London Trauma Conference #LTC2015 – Day Two

Hello again from the London Trauma Conference!

If you haven’t listened to the day one podcast yet, catch up here.

http://www.podbean.com/media/player/wsyak-5ad5f3

We’ve managed to catch up with a couple more speakers for an in-depth chat about their talk topics at the conference and we’ll be bringing you those podcasts over the next couple of weeks – and we are really grateful to those who gave…