I1: Trauma, Pre-hospital and Cardiac Arrest Care 2015
Pascale Avery, Leopold Salm, Flora Bird
A1: Retrospective evaluation of HEMS ‘Direct to CT’ protocol
Anja Hutchinson, Ashley Matthies, Anthony Hudson, Heather Jarman
A2 Rush hour – Crush hour: temporal relationship of cyclist vs. HGV trauma admissions. A single site observational study
Maria Bergman Nilsson, Tom Konig, Nigel Tai
A3 Semiprone position endotracheal intubation during continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation in drowned children with regurgitation: a case report and experimental manikin study
Espen Fevang, Børge Hognestad, Håkon B. Abrahamsen
A4 An audit of CO2 A-a gradient in non-trauma patients receiving pre-hospital anaesthesia
Olivia V Cheetham, Matthew JC Thomas, Kieron D Rooney
A5 Can the use of c-spine immobilisation collars be avoided in non-trauma patients presenting to the Emergency Department?
Josephine Murray, Malcolm Tunnicliff
A6 Curriculum mapping in ED point of care simulation
Joseph W Collinson, Thomas Brown, Christopher Pritchett
A7 Point of care multidisciplinary trauma team simulation & participant satisfaction in a geographically remote trauma unit in Cornwall
Christopher SA Pritchett, Mark Jadav, Gareth Meredith, Jamie Plumb, Steve Harris, Roger Langford
A8 Conservative management of head injury inpatients - the challenge of simplifying injury management in a non-neurosurgical hospital
JG Hunter, A Sage, R Madden, O Flamank, B Broadbent, S Marsh, H Lewis, E Daniels, N Roberts
A9 Improving the care of traumatic brain injury at non-neurosurgical hospitals: Introducing a head injury pathway and single place of care is associated with significant improvements in neurological observation
JG Hunter, A Sage, R Madden, O Flamank, B Broadbent, S Marsh, H Lewis, E Daniels, N Lin, N Roberts
A10 The experience of inter-disciplinary students undertaking cardiac arrest moulage training
Samuel Bulford, Silas Houghton-Budd, Sam Pearson, Megan Clear-Hill
A11 Impact brain apnoea – nine cases
David J Menzies, James P Leonard, Conor Keogh, Ray Quinn, John D Hinds
A12 Time well spent? Improving the performance improvement programme in a busy Trauma Unit
N Roberts, D Ashton-Cleary, M Jadav
A14 Clinical significant and outcome of pulmonary contusions in patients with blunt chest trauma
Ismail Mahmood, Ayman El-Menyar, Basil Younis, Ahmed Khalid, Syed Nabir, Mohamed Nadeem Ahmed, Omer Al-Yahri, Hassan Al-Thani
A15 Plastics operative workload in major trauma centres: a national prospective survey
Katie Young, Susan A. Hendrickson, Georgina Phillips, Matthew D. Gardiner, Shehan Hettiaratchy
A16 A survey to assess the accuracy of estimating height by pre-hospital clinicians: can we reliably predict those most at risk of serious injury?
Alexandra Alice Crossland, Anthony Hudson
A17 An audit of the cause, outcome and adherence to treatment Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for all traumatic cardiac arrests at a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service over a 12-month period
Nicholas C Brassington, Anthony Hudson, Emily McWhirter
A18 Should we “stay-and-play? A study of patient physiology in Norwegian Helicopter Emergency Services
Bjørn O Reid, Marius Rehn, Oddvar Uleberg, Andreas J Krüger
A19 Training in resuscitative thoracotomy: have we cracked it? A survey of higher Emergency Medicine trainees in London
Cara Jennings, Yasmin Kapadia, Duncan Bew
A20 London’s Air Ambulance (LAA): 25-years of drownings in an urban environment
Jenny Townsend, Tom P Hurst, Elizabeth A Foster
A21 Live patients in trauma simulation – more than just simulation on a shoestring?
Thomas B Brown, Joseph Collinson, Christopher Pritchett, Toby Slade
A22 Collecting core data in pre-hospital critical care using a consensus based template
Kristin Tønsager, Marius Rehn, Kjetil G.Ringdal, Andreas J.Krüger
A23 Prehospital interventions before and after implementation of a physician staffed helicopter
Rasmus Hesselfeldt, Sandra Wulffeld, Asger Sonne, Lars S. Rasmussen, Jacob Steinmetz
A24 Duration of ventilation following prehospital drug assisted intubation; a retrospective review
Thomas J Renninson, Nadine Thomson, Harvey Pynn, Timothy J Hooper
A25 Non-haemorrhagic shock in trauma: a novel guideline for management in ED
Anthony Hudson, Jacinta Dawson, Ashley Matthies
A26 Patient-tailored triage decisions by anaesthetist-staffed pre-hospital critical care teams
Morten Langfeldt Friberg, Leif Rognås
A27 Anatomical accuracy and appropriate sizing of pre-hospital thoracostomies
Jessica FG Wills, Anthony Hudson
A28 Pre-hospital management of mass casualty civilian shootings
Conor DA Turner, Marius Rehn
A30 The prevalence of alcohol-related trauma recidivism: a systematic review
James Nunn, Mete Erdogan, Robert S. Green
A31 Development of a hospital-wide program for simulation-based training in trauma care and management
Samuel Minor, Mete Erdogan, Kathy Hartlen, Robert S. Green
A32 Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OOHCA); lessons from Hollywood
Ruth Bird, Rachael L. Grupping
A33 Mechanism of injury as a predictor of severity of injury in road traffic collisions: a literature review
Amelia M. Stacey, Marius Rehn, David J. Lockey
A34 Lessons to be learned from prehospital airway intervention documentation? Are airway intervention documentation templates as successful in-hospital as prehospitally?
S. Abiks, L. Cutler, K. Monaghan, A. Al-Rais, C. Hymers, R. Bloomer, Y. Kapadia
A35 Novel biomarkers in prehospital management of traumatic brain injury (the PreTBI study protocol)
Sophie-Charlott Seidenfaden, Ingunn S. Riddervold, Hans Kirkegaard, Niels Juul, Morten T. Bøtker
A36 Hospital outcomes of traumatic railway incidents: a seven-year observational retrospective study of a major trauma centre
Alice Gao, Zane Perkins; Gareth Grier, Alex Tzannes
A37 Does taking a third crew member affect the on-scene time of HEMS jobs?
Nathan Hudson-Peacock, Quentin Otto, Laurie Phillipson, Rik Thomas, Ainsley Heyworth
A38 Does pre-hospital rapid sequence induction affect on-scene time of HEMS jobs?
Quentin Otto, Nathan Hudson-Peacock, Laurie Phillipson, Ainsley Heyworth, Erica Ley
A39 Code red: shock index as a prehospital indicator of massive haemorrhage
Daniel Banner, Ainsley Heyworth, Erica Ley
A40 Air ambulance tasking: how accurate are our current methods?
Madeleine Benson, Nathan Hudson-Peacock, Tony Stone, Erica Ley, Louise Rousson, Ainsley Heyworth
A41 Modern trauma burden in a district general hospital
Beth A Lineham, Matthew J Lee, Martin Gough
A42 Establishing a legal service for major trauma patients in two UK major trauma centres
William H Seligman, Hannah E Thould, Andrew Dinsmore, Charlotte Tan, Julian Thompson, C Andy Eynon, David J Lockey
A43 Prehospital assessment and care of patients – a study of the use of guidelines when assessing head trauma
Rebecka M Rubenson Wahlin, Veronica Lindström, Sari Ponzer, Veronica Vicente
A44 An audit of pre-hospital blood pressure management resulting from head injury
Pamela Eligio, Anthony Hudson
A45 The surgical contribution of surface shading volumetric rendering techniques in rib fracture management
Robert Young, Dimitri Amiras, Ian Sinha