Emergency Trauma Management Course
One of the newer short courses on the Australian scene is the Emergency Trauma Management course, as seen in the EMA. This …
Thinking about: Perimortem Caesarean Section
With the news of a fatal car crash in Hobart earlier this year, social media was abuzz with rumours of a perimortem …
How long do you attempt to resuscitate traumatic cardiac arrest?
A middle-aged man is brought to your ED in cardiac arrest after being a pedestrian struck by a car at high speed. …
EMST courses now available (including in Adelaide)
Ok, ATLS/EMST may have gotten a bad rap recently, but it remains a good foundation for those who have not yet managed …
Should ATLS still be the gold-standard course for trauma management?
Has ATLS Fallen Behind? ATLS, and the Australian equivalent EMST, remains the global go-to trauma course for budding clinicians. The course was developed 40 …
What’s the PROPPR ratio for massive transfusion?
This week, NEJM has published the PROPPR trial—Pragmatic Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratio—investigating the ratio of blood products used in massive …
Don’t overestimate the Geriatric Conscious State (aka GCS is unreliable in the elderly)
We all know that elderly trauma patients tend to have worse outcomes, and that there is a high incidence of occult injury. A recent …
@ATACCFaculty release ATACC Trauma Manual as #FOAMed
The Anaesthesia, Trauma and Critical Care course faculty have released the latest edition of the ATACC manual into the FOAM world. A …