About the podcast
Dr Clare Bosanko is has again been kind enough to share her expertise on paediatric trauma, drawing from her extensive experience in both in-hospital and pre-hospital emergency medicine along with experience in paediatric retrieval services in the Midlands.
Though children are not ‘just little adults’, their management does follow the same pathway we should all be familiar with now: C-A<c>BCDE (rolls off the tongue!). Following this route, Clare goes over the important differences between paediatric and adult trauma care, along with the differences between children of different ages. Areas include alterations to practice and key pitfalls to remain aware of in managing the paediatric population.
Though paediatric trauma is rare, as Clare highlights a not insignificant proportion of patients self-present and so we are all likely to need to manage these patients (and their carers!) at some point.
Included in the show notes are links to the free open access medical education material provided by Don’t Forget the Bubbles (DFTB) and East Midlands Emergency Medicine Educational Media (EM3).
Make sure to listen to this podcast with our podcast on managing paediatric trauma.
Paediatric Trauma – ThePTN podcast
Learning areas in this podcast:
- No specific learning areas covered in this podcast though children certainly count as ‘special circumstances’
Links:
TARNlet paediatric sub-report from TARN (Trauma Audit and Research Network), annual reports (under ‘severe injury in children’) here.
Don’t Forget the Bubbles site here.
Maturing your approach to trauma: Anne Weaver at DFTB19 here. (accessed 10/1/23)
Taking your trauma team to the next level: Anna Dobbie at DFTB19 here. (accessed 10/1/23)
EM3 Paediatric major trauma educational material (mapped to old RCEM curriculum area PMP4: major trauma in children) here. (Accessed 10/1/23).
THE PTN 