Welcome to the first ETM Course Podcast Trauma Short – bite-sized easy to digest quick reviews of practical trauma topics. In this episode we review the new UK NICE Trauma Guideline recommendation for management of open pneumothorax. In a nutshell, 3-sided...
Running a course like ETM is challenging, at times exhausting but ultimately extremely rewarding when you see the improvement in participants knowledge, skills and confidence in managing major trauma over the 3-days of the course. This reward is amplified when we read...
We got a lot of questions after round 1 of the large bore IV access showdown, mainly about the effect of points of narrowing that may be introduced to your fluid administration lines. So we set up round 2, testing the effect of a fluid warmer, an IV bung and a 3-way...
In this episode Andrew Perry interviews Bruce Paix, a very experienced pre-hospital/retrieval (and military) Anaesthetist and trauma expert about haemorrhage control in trauma. This is a great episode with some real pearls. Bruce challenges the traditional teaching...
This is not specifically a post related to trauma, however we wanted to share this video, as epistaxis is a very common presenting problem in the ED. Key points to remember about traumatic epistaxis are: Exercise caution inserting packing devices into patients with...