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Dr Matt Warner, consultant in EM and PHEM, BASMU medical director, Derriford Hospital Plymouth | Physiology alterations | Comorbidities | Intubation and ventilation considerations | Pharmacology

Ms Sian Falder Consultant in burns and plastic surgery, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool | Burn grading | Early management | TBSA | Burn resuscitation

Dr Tom Scorer, Consultant Haematologist and transfusion lead, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth | History of transfusion in trauma | Blood products | Massive Transfusion | Targeted transfusion

Dr Clare Bosanko EM & PHEM working with Devon Air Ambulance and Devon BASICS, experience in paediatric retrieval and transfer | Epidemiology and incidence of paediatric major trauma | alterations to adult protocols

Dr John Hulmes; Intensivist, anaesthetist, PHEM consultant in Birmingham | Analgesic options | Experience of pain | Non-pharmacological elements

Dr Ben Ivory ICM and Anaesthetics consultant at Torbay Hospital and National Education Lead for Organ Donation NHS Blood & Transplant | Potential donor types | How, when and where to have the conversation | Role of ICU admission.

Prof Ian Roberts is a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygeine & Tropical Medicine. Internationally renowned for his work on TXA, Prof Roberts was lead investigator in the CRASH2 and heavily involved in the WOMAN and CRASH3 trials. Tim discussed the history and current evidence with the use of TXA in trauma.

Paediatric radiologist Dr Jude Foster runs through the use of imaging in the paediatric trauma population. Topics include selectivity in patient groups, focussed regional imaging vs. pan scanning and the utility of imaging modality.

A sad necessity of working in trauma is the fairly frequent need to inform patients or their loved ones about the injuries they have sustained and often, that they are unlikely to survive. Dr Annette Rickard offers her experience in how to approach these situations.

Guest: Dr Matt Wiles, consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivisty working in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust discusses the use of vasopressors in the setting of traumatic hypotension. Topics include: is traumatic hypotension is purely hypovolaemia? choice of vasopressors, how to use and end points to guide us.