London Trauma Conference 2015 : London, UK, 8-11 December 2015

Abstract

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