FAST involves assessment of the peritoneal cavity, pleural cavity and pericardial space. Learning that free fluid is present facilitates the most appropriate management plan…
Paediatric Trauma
Imaging and management in paediatric trauma…
TERN’s Top Papers: April 2021
Welcome to the second of TERN’s Top Papers. Each month, a different region review a selection of papers on a different theme each month.…
Blunt trauma to the abdomen – don’t forget the kidneys!
A 37-year-old man is brought into the emergency department following a road traffic collision.…
Abdominal injury and haematuria after falling off a BMX
An 18-year-old male is brought into the ED by ambulance. He was performing a BMX stunt off a ramp approximately 6 feet in the air and lost his balance, and fell to the floor landing on his right hand …
FRCEM Primary Paper 1
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
FAST scan
The use of FAST scan in the ED…
Abdominal Trauma
The assessment of abdominal trauma is notoriously difficult. Serious intra-abdominal injuries may initially appear to be innocuous and localisation of symptoms is variable.…
Abdominal Trauma
This session will give you a plan for the initial assessment and management of abdominal trauma. It should enable you to think ahead and try to predict what underlying intra-abdominal injuries a patie…
Introduction to Ultrasound Physics and the role of FAST Scanning in the ED
An introduction to FAST scanning in the emergency department and a brief introduction to ultrasound physics…
Hello ALARA… Goodbye frying scans!
Struggling to negotiate CT imaging requests for your paediatric patients? Let the guiding principles of ALARA come to your rescue!…
May 2019 Podcast
This month we have a discussion on the Manchester Bombing | Scribes in the ED | TERN TIRED | PTX and haemothorax in the CT era | Horse Trauma | Roc Rocks – ED RSI with Rocuronium or Suxamethoniu…
FRCEM Primary Paper 3
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
Paediatric Trauma Anatomy – Easy as AcBC
The alert phone goes: the ambulance team are bringing in a 2 year old girl who has fallen down a flight of stairs…
Shedding light on Paediatric Trauma Imaging
Trauma is such a sexy topic. Add children and well feelings can change. But why? I hear you ask. What is so different?…
The use of CT in Trauma – Tri-Service Emergency Medicine Conference 2015
Welcome to a podcast recorded at the Tri-Service Emergency Medicine Conference with Dr Richard Wellings who is a Consultant Radiologist at Coventry and Warwick University Hospitals…
Skateboarder’s Spleen
An 18-year-old man presents with left upper quadrant (LUQ) and left lower chest wall pain following a fall from a skateboard at a height of approximately 4ft.…
Absolute Risk Reduction
A paper about the effect of tranexamic acid for patients who have suffered major trauma…