In this episode we discuss to assess the scenes of Road Traffic Collisions, how car safety features work and how thinking about the injury experience during a collision can support our practice and care for injured patients.
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In this episode we discuss to assess the scenes of Road Traffic Collisions, how car safety features work and how thinking about the injury experience during a collision can support our practice and care for injured patients.
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Every year in England and wales 1.4 million people attend A+E with a head injury.
Ultimately, 90% of people end up being diagnosed with a minor head injury and are discharged.
This week we’re tackling the assessment of Adult head injuries, we’ll go through some red flags to be aware of as well as how to appropriately safety net our patients.
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In this episode we discuss logical fallacies and how they can lead to errors in clinical judgement, as well as some times in our practice we have displayed them and what if anything we can do to over come them.
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Starting life with the responsibility and pressure that comes with registration is always nerve wracking and we remember it well. So we've compiled some of the bits of advice we wish we could have given ourselves before we registered.
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In this episode we are going to be covering the assessment of Transient Loss of Conciousness (T-LOC) and discussing some of the differentials that could be responsible, from the easily discharged to the potentially life threatening
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In this second of a 2 part series we discuss; the managment of the peri-arrest patient, management of a hypothermic cardiac arrest, the modifications to standard ALS therapy, how we can best warm patients pre-hospitaly, what our priorities are in managing these patients, in hospital treatments, and finally we’re going to discuss guidance around confirming deathing in hypothermia.
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In this episode we look at the pathophysiology behind hypothermia. We go through the stages of hypothermia from mild homeostatic changes to peri-arrest phenomena.
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This Episode focuses on Elderly fallers and our assessment as ambulance clinicians. We hope to dispel some myths, look at gold standard assessment and cover falls prevention.
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