Trauma is all about decision making, so it’s tempting to think that knowing more about how we make decisions might help us do it better. There’s been a lot of hype around System 1 and System 2, metacognition and bias in the Emergency Medicine scene lately...
There have been thousands of injuries & dozens of deaths in Australian children attributable to quad bike use. Warwick Teague, Paediatric Surgeon and Director of Trauma at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital is passionate about changing this. This is...
This is a review article (available free online over at The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery) that covers compartment syndrome by body region, reviewing the latest evidence and challenging some dogma related to this fascinating condition. Ivatury RR. Pressure,...
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...