Excited to help launch the Goal Trauma study - a global study of trauma laparotomy. Trauma is a major global killer, but we have little data on how it is managed across the world and what influences outcomes. Any hospital in the world can sign up here goaltrauma.org

#MondayUpdate The GOAL-Trauma (Global Outcomes After Laparotomy for Trauma) study has launched! goaltrauma.org Aim: global snapshot of: mortality rates after trauma laparotomy variation in delays in receiving care, disease and patient factors overall patient outcomes

Thank you to Cambridge Public Health for their news article on the #GOALTrauma study tinyurl.com/mrx3xa3r The study begins soon, so head to goaltrauma.org to get yourself signed up today! Cambridge University NIHR GHRG on Acquired Brain & Spine Injury (ABSI) European Society for Trauma & Emergency Surgery NaTRIC SAMU de Jalisco GASOC

There remains ⏫ variability in pre-hospital fluid resuscitation strategies for blunt trauma patients in🇬🇧&🇩🇪 See our latest paper published in Critical Care on pre-hospital volume resuscitation strategies #OpenAccess ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

NEW editorial GOAL-Trauma doi.org/10.1002/wjs.12… Join 50 hospitals in >30 countries Sign up here: goaltrauma.org Why? - collaborative authorship - 30 day window - eligible with min 1 case Mike Bath NaTRIC European Society for Trauma & Emergency Surgery

📢 New Cochrane review on appendicitis: A third of the participants initially treated with antibiotics required subsequent appendectomy or two‐thirds avoided surgery within one year. Siv Fonnes Brett Doleman 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/146518…

Did you know..🤔💭 Anaesthesia machines and capacity for performing general anaesthesia are only available in 43% and 56% of LMICs, despite a high need for surgery. Lack of safe anaesthesia constitutes a major barrier to safe surgery in many low resource settings. 🌍🤯

"The question is not whether to set up formal trauma systems, but rather how to improve the support systems for those who do survive" A fantastic reply to our original paper on #TraumaSystem outcomes, published in Emergency Medicine Journal emj.bmj.com/content/early/… International Health Systems Group (IHSG) GOAL-Trauma

Great work by our team North Mid NHS Trust, publishing this important Scoping Review on Abdominal Drain Placement in Emergency GI Surgery in RACSurgeons 🔪 Summary: - Current evidence equivocal on benefit ⚖️ - Potential morbidity associated 🤒 Full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Friday reading 📒🧐 "Given that uncertainty, it is appropriate for LMICs to continue their efforts to save as many lives as possible through implementing trauma systems." emj.bmj.com/content/early/… Mike Bath Emergency Medicine Journal

We're recruiting for SAS Rep and Social media lead! Deadline: Friday 21st June This is a fantastic opportunity to join our diverse & energetic team as we support and improve education, training and collaboration in trauma and general surgery #egs #trauma moynihanacademy.org.uk/get-involved/

🌍 Recruiting centres globally to study trauma laparotomy patients. 👩‍💻 Data on patients of any age, blunt/penetrating injuries presenting within 5 days. 📝 30-day post-op follow-up with Data collection via REDCap. Interested in joining? Learn more from goaltrauma.org

A fantastic day, thank you to The Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Annals of the RCS for the award!

Feasibility of Prehospital Partial Z1 REBOA in London. P-PRO, a huge collaborative effort from a multidisciplinary group. So thank you. Targeting the individual patients pathophysiology, time, cardiogenic shock diagnosis/management are ongoing challenges. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…

For this week’s #MAUpdate, let’s explore 11 upcoming meetings and abstracts. Why? Be “in the room where it happens” Share your latest and best research Stay on top of key advances in EGS/Trauma surgery Network with brilliant people Boost your future career 🧵1/9

"The Science of Knife Crime", on BBC Radio 4 today (and available on BBC Sounds). CommsC4TS @london_trauma bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Preoperative high dose of dexamethasone in emergency laparotomy: randomized clinical trial ⁦BJS⁩ academic.oup.com/bjs/article-ab…

A joint statement on Bystander Bleeding Control for London. People can lose a lot of blood, very quickly from bleeding wounds. Pressing directly on a wound with a piece of material until help arrives can make all the difference. We encourage all Londoners to get confident in

"Half of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on external financing for more than a third of their health expenditures" Angela Apeagyei, Justice Nonvignon Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) & team PLOS Global Public Health call for African nations to invest more in health & increase efficiency journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

Trauma services are very much a bellwether for the mood, activity and stresses of the nation. Across London trauma centres are seeing a palpable increase in people trying to take their own lives and self-harming. (On the back of year-on-year increases over the last 10 years).