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ETM Course Accredited for ACEM CPD points
For those that have been asking, the Emergency Trauma Management Course is now accredited for 21.5 CPD points with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). This means that a FACEM can earn nearly half their yearly points just for attending the course!...
Thoracotomy Critique
Question: [DDET What are the most feared procedures in Emergency Medicine? (Click for answer)] 1) Perimortem C-Section This is actually the number 1 answer, a truly nerve-jangling experience for all involved, and sure to leave a deep mental impression. There are some...
Interested in Simulation? Sign up to NHET-Sim
NHET-Sim is the National Health Education and Training in Simulation program. It is part of a federally funded program by the Australian Government that is open to all Australian health practitioners wishing to use simulation as an education tool. I'm sure many of...
ETM Podcast Epsiode 4 – Kenji Inaba
I was lucky enough to catch up with LA County Hospital Trauma Surgeon, and all 'round nice guy Kenji Inaba at the recent SWAN Trauma Conference at Liverpool Hospital. Kenji published a great paper last year on the use of CT for investigation of penetrating neck...
Injury Description in the ED
Trauma means injuries. Gory open wounds that make lay-people faint. Most ED doctors are aware that a "lac is not a lac", but the entrenched short-hand vernacular we use in ED-speak which is often technically incorrect. Whilst very few medico-legal cases actually hang...
Trauma Pearl – Calcaneal Crunchie
The calcaneus is one of the thicker bones in the body. To fracture it takes a lot of force. The main mechanism that causes this fracture is a fall from a significant height, which delivers an axial load that can travel up the body and cause significant associated...
ETM Podcast Episode 3 – Casey Parker
In this episode we catch up with Casey Parker from Broome Docs. Casey is a world renowned Rural Generalist, medical educator, podcaster, blogger and all 'round nice guy and in this episode we talk about the trials and tribulations of rural and remote trauma. Casey...
E-FAST Facts
I was fortunate enough while in Broome at the ACEM Winter Symposium to meet Dr James Rippey, who helps run the amazing Ultrasound Village. While chatting he told me about the loads of ultrasound education material on their website which you can access for free. If...
ETM Presentation at ACEM Winter Symposium
Amit and I were lucky enough to be invited to speak at the ACEM Winter Symposium held in Broome last weekend. Amongst swaying palm trees, the turquoise waters of Cable Beach, stunning sunsets, and astrological marvels, as well as ED and FOAMed luminaries such as...
ETM Podcast Episode 2 – Minh Le Cong – Trauma Airway (part 2)
Episode 2 of the podcast, and we go further into the meaty guts of the trauma airway, covering the controversial topic of cricoid pressure, dealing with the bloody airway in the spinally immobilised patient, (and the use - or lack thereof - of video laryngoscopy in...
SWAN XXI Trauma Conference
For those of you in Australia who are interested in trauma care, I suggest you take a look at the South West Area Network Trauma Conference, being held at Liverpool Hospital (one of Sydney's major trauma centres) in late July 2013. Whilst slightly inconvenient to get...
ETM Course – progress update
Thanks to everyone for the steady stream of inquiries about the course. We have over 40 expressions of interest so far which is almost enough to fill the first 2 courses! If you want to put your name on our list to be notified when the course is officially launched,...