“Jay Leno, Gisele & the Pregnant Trauma Patient…”

I promise I don’t mean to keep referencing supermodels in my posts…it just seems to happen! Today is a short post but includes my vodcast on the pregnant trauma patient. (Apologies in advance for my sniffles in the background!). As Jay Leno says, its still just one patient. Treating the mother is the primary objective. […]

The Eurostar, Giselle & a bottle of Chateau Petrus…. A new vision for the NHS

Intriguing title? I was going to put a picture of the Eurostar but I find Giselle more eye-catching. What’s the tenuous link to working in the ED? Todays post was inspired thanks to a TED talk sent to me by @drjameelkarim by a chap called @rorysutherland. His bio can be found here, but essentially he is […]

“Your dream is someone else’s nightmare….”

For those of us who work in an emergency medicine/ pre-hospital care we all have experience of saying or overhearing someone say: “I fancy seeing a big code red trauma or big sick patient today….”. We say it not to sound unsympathetic or uncaring but the sickest patients are the ones that drive and challenge […]