Stabbing; Roadside to Resus

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Figures for the year ending September 2019 showed a 7% rise in offences involving knives or sharp instruments recorded by the police (to 44,771 offences). This is 46% higher than when comparable recording began (year ending March 2011) and the highest on record.

The news is sadly littered with cases of knife crime and terror and whilst we may have thought of stabbings as confined to small pockets of the country, sadly it now seems that we all have or all will be dealing with such cases.

The variability in injury and severity is vast from stabbings, however in extremis they are completely time critical, and striking the balance between performing only those life saving interventions on scene, during transport and in ED and getting to the final destination of theatre as quickly as possible.

In this podcast we discuss our thoughts on dealing with these cases; from the moment we get that call, all the way through to getting them into theatre.

As always we’d love to hear any thoughts or comments you have on the website and via twitter, and make sure you take a look at the references and guidelines linked below to draw your own conclusions.

Enjoy!

Simon, Rob and James

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.
0:03.5	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:12.1	So hi, and welcome back to the Reeser Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang. I'm Rob Fenwick. And I'm James Yates.
0:19.1	And we're back with another roadside to recess, and this time it's on stabbing. It certainly is, and I'm Rob Fenwick and I'm James Yates and we're back with another roadside to recess and this time it's on stabbing.
0:23.9	It certainly is and I'm really looking forward to getting our teeth into this one because I think it's a really interesting and clearly quite a topical subject and I think before we even get started we have to say a massive thanks to everyone who really got stuck in and engaged with the Twitter
0:38.3	conversation that we had. And then in addition to that, I've also got a couple of little
0:42.4	thanks to say, one, to a colleague of mine, Callum Sutton, who is a paramedic working with a tactical
0:47.8	response unit down in London. He was really giving some valuable insights into sort of their
0:53.4	processes and their thoughts and
0:54.7	their experiences of going to these incidents a lot. And I also heard from a firearms medic from
1:01.2	the police who also gave some fantastic insights into their perspective on scene management. So
1:06.6	yeah, thanks to everybody who got involved, it's really shaped this episode. And we're really
1:10.4	looking forward to getting going. But although we're talking about stabbing you could
1:13.6	almost say that this is going to be more of the challenge about dealing with wind
1:17.5	the wind particularly coming from you you got to have to clarify that one I'm not
1:24.4	talking about a GI upset I'm talking about Storm Keara which is whistling through the windows all around us and proving some technical challenges.
1:34.2	The problems we have.
1:36.2	The problems we have.
1:37.4	And before we get started, a huge thanks to S.J. Trem, the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine,
1:44.0	who are the partners
1:45.1	with us in this podcast and enable us to deliver this podcast to you in this format.
1:50.4	Make sure you go and check out their journal online where all the sorts of topics that we
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