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REBOA with Zaf Qasim aka @ResusOne Let's talk about training, indications and practicalities. Is it ready for prime time in the UK? Listen to the podcast and find out more. St Emlyn's #FOAMed #trauma #stemlyns

This week we are publishing a podcast with Zaf Qasim on REBOA. Zaf is a St Emlyn’s team member and Virchester alumnus although he now works over in the US having completed his critical care fellowships there some years ago. You can check his work in Pennsylavania by following him on twitter @ResusOne

Zaf has forged a special interest in endovascular resuscitation and is uniquely placed to…

Bonded in Blood: Ashley Liebig and Noah Galloway. St Emlyn’s

Editor’s note. This blog has been a long time coming. It describes the personal impact of war, trauma, survival and recovery based on Ashley and Noah’s experiences of Iraq in 2005-2006. More than that, it describes a remarkable human being, Noah Galloway, whom I had the pleasure to meet when out in Austin, Texas. Noah’s journey is as challenging as any I can imagine, but despite that he is a…

JC: Clots in Pots gets Top Spot. Thromboprophylaxis at St.Emlyn’s

Every so often, a paper comes along that contradicts your gut feeling and/or current practice and makes you really think hard. That happened to me this weekend.

You may have previously seen or heard us in Virchester espouse the virtue of thromboprophylaxisfor ambulatory patients immobilised in temporary plaster casts1. This was built initially on rare but emotive clinical experience of young…