The Resuscitator sessions. Back in February I attended ‘The Big Sick’ conference in Zermatt. I’ve been several times and talked about it a lot here and on the podcast. It […]

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Significant pelvic fractures can cause life-threatening haemorrhage. Recognise that risk early, but don’t assume the pelvis is the only source of bleeding. Management often requires input from emergency medicine, orthopaedics, […]

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Many years ago, when I was working as a registrar in Emergency Medicine and starting my PhD, my supervisor (a social scientist) got me to think about the assumptions I […]

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We see a lot of patients with mechanisms of injury and/or clinical signs that suggest a spinal column injury. Should you image the whole spine or just the areas that […]

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Syncope is one of those presentations that can be both straightforward and remarkably difficult. In many patients the history gives us a pretty convincing diagnosis of vasovagal or orthostatic syncope, […]

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