Category Archives: trauma

Things to Do When Blunt Things Happen — The Collective

Continuing the series of sharing Carebundles, Alan Garner moves on to go through the stuff to include in multiple blunt trauma. OK, part 2 in our Carebundle series. This time we will take a look at our multiple blunt trauma bundle. This excludes isolated head injury which we dealt with in the previous post. WhyContinue reading “Things to Do When Blunt Things Happen — The Collective”

Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front

The UC Division of EMS has recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate EMS Week 2016.  We are honored to be able to engage EMS Providers throughout the world with this forum.  If you practice pre-hospital medicine, we would like to say thank you and that we appreciate everything you do to provide a high…Continue reading “Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front”

Pressure ulcers, indentation marks and pain from cervical spine immobilization with extrication collars and headblocks: An observational study

Interesting article: Pressure ulcers and skin indentation from spinal immobilisation.https://t.co/rDLiA0Rtef pic.twitter.com/HEh54hHMDJ — Rob Fenwick (@robfenwick) May 15, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

ETM Podcast Episode 10 – Bruce Paix & Andrew Perry – Haemorrhage control in trauma

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 in trauma by asking us to not be afraid of the hypotensive trauma patient, but rather to accept…Continue reading “ETM Podcast Episode 10 – Bruce Paix & Andrew Perry – Haemorrhage control in trauma”