ETM Course Director Andy Buck was lucky enough to be invited to speak on Trauma Education at the fantastic ANZTS Conference in Brisbane this week. If you’re looking for the references from Andy’s talk, you can find them here. Thanks to everyone who came to...
We are excited to announce that after a hibernation period, the ETM Course podcast is back! In our first episode of the new podcast we talk to Dr Christine Bowles, Emergency Physician and Trauma Physician at St George Hospital, one of Sydney’s Major Trauma...
We’re posting this as a shout out to Andrew Petrosoniak and Chris Hicks from Advanced Performance, and Mark Bonta from Ditch The Labcoat podcast. This is a fantastic interview with some really interesting insights on trauma team leadership from a couple of the...
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...
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...