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Traumatic Cardiac ArrestBlogResuscitationTrauma

Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

Can you answer these 2 questions? Q 1. Which of these interventions do you think…
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emergency medicine conference
Orbital blowout fracture causing syncopeBlogophthalmologyTrauma

Orbital blowout fracture causing syncope

When you're suspicious of entrapment in an orbital floor blowout fracture following trauma, you ask…
Hip Dislocation
Hip Dislocation
Hip DislocationBlogOrthopaedics

Hip Dislocation

Introduction This review is based on a great journal article just published (1) The most…
Tranexamic Acid
Tranexamic Acid
Tranexamic Acid: Did We Find Another Use?BlogHaematologyTrauma

Tranexamic Acid: Did We Find Another Use?

Tranexamic Acid: Did we find another Use? So, picture a case. A 45 year old…
Potential traumatic brain injury - Resus
Potential traumatic brain injury - Resus
CRASH-3 TrialBlogTraumaUncategorized

CRASH-3 Trial

The CRASH-3 Trial has been published. CRASH-2 demonstrated that early administration of tranexamic acid(within 3…
Honey - Button Battery Ingestion
Honey - Button Battery Ingestion
Honey for Button Battery Ingestion?BlogTrauma

Honey for Button Battery Ingestion?

A 25-year-old patient presents with recurrent lithium button battery ingestion. She had been admitted with…
Rectal Exams - Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Rectal Exams - Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Why are we still doing log roll, FAST and rectal exams?BlogTrauma

Why are we still doing log roll, FAST and rectal exams?

In the blunt trauma patient, where we are considering a pan-scan, is there a role for…
Pregnancy and Trauma
Pregnancy and Trauma
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Pregnancy and Trauma

Trauma in pregnancy is a much more complex topic than simply, ’tilt them on their…
Doll's Eye Reflex
Doll's Eye Reflex
Fixed Dilated PupilsBlogResuscitationTrauma

Fixed Dilated Pupils

Head injury with fixed dilated pupils: Are we done? We have looked at the pupillary…
Cervical Spine -Iconoclasm
Cervical Spine -Iconoclasm
The Cervical Spine: The Iconoclasm ContinuesBlogTrauma

The Cervical Spine: The Iconoclasm Continues

In recent blogs I suggested that clinically significant C spine injuries can be excluded by…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
How Important is a C-Spine Collar….really?BlogTrauma

How Important is a C-Spine Collar….really?

In preparation for EMCORE Hong Kong 2018, I took some time to sit down and…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Cervical spine clearance in the intoxicated patientBlogTrauma

Cervical spine clearance in the intoxicated patient

The most commonly used c spine clearance rules exclude or mandate imaging in the case…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Maisonneuve FractureBlogOrthopaedicsTrauma

Maisonneuve Fracture

A Maisonneuve fracture is caused by pronation and external rotation. It can be difficult to…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Traumatic Head Injury: Mannitol Anyone?TraumaTrauma Featured VideoTrauma Resuscitation

Traumatic Head Injury: Mannitol Anyone?

A/Prof Peter Kas takes us into the head injury scenario where there is suspected raised…
Trauma Resuscitation
Trauma Resuscitation
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Trauma Resuscitation

A/Prof Peter Kas looks at some of the important evidence based trauma resuscitation measures we…
CT scan unstable trauma patients
CT scan unstable trauma patients
Unstable Trauma Patient: The Surgeon wants a CTBlogTraumaTrauma Featured VideoTrauma Resuscitation

Unstable Trauma Patient: The Surgeon wants a CT

https://player.vimeo.com/video/169954094 Introduction What if we had a tool that allowed identification of haemorrhage source, in…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Important Studies in Emergency MedicineBlogTrauma Resuscitation

Important Studies in Emergency Medicine

Below are some important studies in Emergency Medicine. There certainly are more, however these are…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Carotid Artery DissectionBlogNeurology/Neurosurgery

Carotid Artery Dissection

Patients can present to us with a sudden severe headache, also known as a thunderclap…

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Paramedic-3 Trial

In response to the uncertainty of which route is better for drug administration in Out-of-Hospital…
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Foreign Body in the Ear: Is that a Spider?

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