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...
The last episode of the ETM Podcast (available here) with Bruce Paix generated a lot of comments on the blog and activity on Twitter. Scott Weingart (from EMCrit) very politely asked for some air-time to make a few additional comments on the topic of surgical airways...
Andrew and Bruce are back, taking a deep-dive into the neck to discuss a procedure that can strike fear into even the most experienced trauma practitioner and one which has created much debate regarding the “best” method (i.e. needle vs knife). (Go to...
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...
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...