Jason Smith

Emeritus Defence Professor of Emergency Medicine
Consultant in EM, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

[Clinical Trials Unit @NHSBT_CTU]

New publication! 🥳

The results of @SWiFT_trial have been published! Thank you to everyone involved in the trial in helping us reach this milestone.
https://t.co/9rS7Vqjhrg

[Ed Barnard @edbarn]

Whole blood in trauma has generated enormous interest. Today, @SWiFT_trial in @NEJM provides the clearest randomised evidence so far on whether prehospital whole blood improves outcomes in life-threatening traumatic haemorrhage: https://t.co/iqgPNZNdfk

[NEJM @NEJM]

Presented at #ISICEM:

Among patients with traumatic hemorrhage, prehospital whole-blood transfusion was not superior to standard transfusion with red-cell and plasma components in reducing the risk of death or massive transfusion. Full phase 3 SWiFT trial results: https://t.co/67l1bSI81L

@ISICEM

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

Huge thanks and congratulations to all involved with the @SWiFT_trial - we have now reached the recruitment target 3 months ahead of schedule - an incredible achievement 👏👏👏@DMS_MilMed @NHSBT @DMS_RCDM @AirAmbulancesUK @NHSBT_RD @NHSBT_CTU

[SWiFT trial @SWiFT_trial]

We are delighted to announce that the @SWiFT_trial has reached it's recruitment target of 900! Thank you to all the teams involved! ❤️ @ExDefProfEM @NHSBT_CTU @DMS_MilMed @AirAmbulancesUK @NHSBT_RD @NHSBT @DefProfEM

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

Great news. Well done Laura 👏👏

[Laura Cottey @lauracottey]

Delighted my PhD award has been confirmed @OfficialUoM. 4 years of hard work, working with brilliant people, lots of presentations about the mitochondria, 78,000 words & two babies along the way! Thank you to my wonderful supervisors @ExDefProfEM, @DMS_MilMed & ADMEM @DefProfEM

[Laura Cottey @lauracottey]

Delighted my PhD award has been confirmed @OfficialUoM. 4 years of hard work, working with brilliant people, lots of presentations about the mitochondria, 78,000 words & two babies along the way! Thank you to my wonderful supervisors @ExDefProfEM, @DMS_MilMed & ADMEM @DefProfEM

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

#PLOSONE: Cervical spine immobilisation following blunt trauma in pre-hospital and emergency care: A systemat ... https://t.co/vL9TIzWQWm

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

Thank you to all of the teams in all of the sites involved. A huge team effort to deliver this important study @SWiFT_trial

[SWiFT trial @SWiFT_trial]

500 Participants enrolled into the @SWiFT_trial 🌟 A fantastic achievement by all of the sites involved - thank you transfusion labs, air ambulances and receiving hospitals! 🩸🚁🏥 🩷 @ExDefProfEM @NHSBT_CTU @NHSBT_RD @TJCoats @AirAmbulancesUK @DMS_MilMed @DefProfEM

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

Protocol for our parallel implementation study for SWiFT now published in BMJ Open -

Study of Whole blood in Frontline Trauma (SWiFT): implementation study protocol @BMJ_Open https://t.co/pO2CJIbPu3

[Tom Roberts @DrTomRoberts]

The annual SouthWest Emergency research meeting:
SWEAT:24 - Thursday 25th April. Taunton Racecourse.

Anyone from Gloucester to Land's End welcome. Focus = Major Trauma and Coastal Inequalities. A great meeting to drive SW research forward!

https://t.co/91mfNHbpAE

[Emergency Medicine Journal @EmergencyMedBMJ]

#Jan2024 #OriginalResearch

Consensus on acute behavioural disturbance in the UK: a multidisciplinary modified Delphi study to determine what it is and how it should be managed

https://t.co/bxpgJFqwLW

@cp_humphries

[SWiFT trial @SWiFT_trial]

It's been a whole year today since the @SWiFT_trial opened. Thank you so much teams - you have recruited an amazing 378 patients to the study! 🌟 @ExDefProfEM @DefProfEM @DMS_MilMed @NHSBT_CTU @NHSBT_RD @AirAmbulancesUK @Barts_Charity

[Ed Barnard @DefProfEM]

Great job, and well deserved @lauracottey - WINNER of The Colt Foundation Research Prize 2023 @ExDefProfEM @CdreAHofman @DMS_SurgGen @DMS_MilMed @INM_RoyalNavy

[SWiFT trial @SWiFT_trial]

366 participants recruited to the @SWiFT_trial - amazing work by all teams! Thank you 🌟🌟🌟🌟 @ExDefProfEM @DefProfEM @NHSBT_CTU @AirAmbulancesUK

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

The @SWiFT_trial protocol has now been published in Trials - the clinical and cost effectiveness of pre-hospital whole blood versus standard care in patients with life-threatening traumatic haemorrhage https://t.co/TOIgkGbs7Q

[Matt Reed @mattreed73]

The RCEM Trainee Emergency Research Network (TERN) Fellowship 2024 advert is now live at https://t.co/yRh8I1hz5D. Please send your application along with a copy of your CV to [email protected] by 17:00 Monday 01 January 2024

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

The UK REBOA trial is out: Emergency Department Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta https://t.co/s833ifymCH

[Jason Smith @ExDefProfEM]

CRYOSTAT-2 is out: Early and Empirical High-Dose Cryoprecipitate for Hemorrhage After Traumatic Injury https://t.co/ykYUfVZiTW

[Emergency Medicine Journal @EmergencyMedBMJ]

In this month's #Sept2023 and mentioned by @emjeditor #RCEMasc

Refreshing the emergency medicine research priorities

https://t.co/5YM0nR4lFu

@lauracottey @clifford0584 @EMManchester @LindAlliance @RCollEM

[David Metcalfe @TraumaDataDoc]

Planning a career in academic emergency medicine? We have a vacancy for an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine attached to @UniofOxford and appointable at ST1, ST2, ST3, or ST4: https://t.co/XtcyBvDW0M