Ed Barnard

Defence Professor of Emergency Medicine. Tweets before 30 Jun 23 are from @ExDefProfEM

[BehindTheKnife @BehindTheKnife]

The debate rages! Is prehospital whole blood all it's cracked up to be?? The data has finally arrived 👇🏼

Whole Blood vs. Components: The Prehospital Debate ➡️➡️➡️ https://t.co/7HGXZfYQ72

@edbarn @DefProfEM @georgoff @DukeSurgery @DukeSurgRes

[Ed Barnard @edbarn]

New in EMJ - free open access:

Endovascular resuscitation: an expert practice review

A practical overview of REBOA, SAAP and ECPR for emergency physicians managing the sickest patients in shock or cardiac arrest.

Please read / comment / share

DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2025-215376

[Ed Barnard @edbarn]

1/8

In cardiac arrest, adrenaline reliably improves ROSC - but has not consistently translated into better long-term neurological survival.

Our comment asks whether the problem is not adrenaline itself, but how and where we deliver it..

Open access: https://t.co/qbXmQRdwRo

[EAAA RAID Group @EAAARAID]

1/ New from @EAAARAID in @SJTREM: observational review of Penthrox for prehospital fracture/dislocation manipulation & reduction in HEMS practice.

In selected limb trauma, methoxyflurane supported successful M&R without IV procedural sedation in more than half of patients.

[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

[Ed Barnard @DefProfEM]

Whole blood vs component therapy for trauma haemorrhage in the prehospital setting - RCT results published today. Funded by @DMS_MilMed @NHSBT and 10x UK HEMS organisations.

[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

[EAAA RAID Group @EAAARAID]

Zermatt today for The Big Sick Conference #TBS2026 @TBS_Zermatt . Dr James Price showcasing East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) RAID work: what changes practice now, and what’s coming next for early brain injury assessment.

[EAAA RAID Group @EAAARAID]

Edition 12 of our @AirMedJournal column: Top-5 #prehospitalpapers - this time critiques from @stat_medevac - facilitated by @EAAARAID

#FOAMed (until 19 Mar 26) Pls read / share / comment..

-> https://t.co/2tk1AVnKCU

Future editions from:
@SurvivalFlight

[Ed Barnard @edbarn]

Free open access: https://t.co/9szGPsPswH

[EAAA RAID Group @EAAARAID]

Great to see our recent @EAAARAID @EHAAT_ @Magpas_Charity @JAMANetworkOpen
paper discussed at the Oslo HEMS Conference..

Free open access here: https://t.co/97g4hMYYRu

[Ed Barnard @edbarn]

Edition 11 of our Air Medical Journal column: Top-5 #prehospitalpapers – this time with expert critiques from @bostonmedflight.

#FOAMed (until 16 Jan 26) – please read / share / comment.

-> https://t.co/2ruTgiYnUs

Future editions from: @stat_medevac

[Royal College of Emergency Medicine @RCollEM]

Thinking about submitting an abstract for #RCEMAnnualConference?

Get top tips from reviewer Professor Ed Barnard (@DefProfEM) — watch the video below for expert advice before the 28 October deadline!

🏆 We’re celebrating your research with exciting prizes:
🖼️ Poster prize winners: £40 voucher + free access to a virtual RCEM event
🎤 Best oral abstract: Free ticket to RCEM Annual Conference 2027

Plus if you abstract is successful you get 20% off standard registration fees!

👉Submit now: https://t.co/LHbsScw5aK

[Iain Beardsell @docib]

Our first @stemlyns podcast from the @BASICS_HQ discussing the abdominal aortic junctional tourniquet in the management of non compressible haemorrhage with @DefProfEM

https://t.co/7AWERxJyfT

[Ed Barnard @DefProfEM]

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[Ed Barnard @DefProfEM]

Excited to be at @SketchleyGrange for the #BASICS2025 conference. ADMEM will again be presenting latest military topics with relevance to UK prehospital care on Day 2.

[UK Carrier Strike Group @COMUKCSG]

Sailing strong together 🇬🇧🤝🇮🇳.

We’ve concluded #ExKonkan. A proud moment as the Strike Group conducted a ceremonial sail past led by @HMSPWLS with the Indian task group led by INS Vikrant.

#CSG25 #OpHighmast

[Ed Barnard @edbarn]

Edition 10 of our Air Medical Journal column: Top-5 #prehospitalpapers - this time critiques from @airambulancekss

#FOAMed (until 22 Nov 25) Pls read / share / comment..

-> https://t.co/2B9vhQTeFU

Future editions from:
@bostonmedflight
@stat_medevac

[Ed Barnard @DefProfEM]

@DefProfSurg @karolinskainst @DMS_MilMed @INM_RoyalNavy @ClareWaltonRAF @ExDefProfEM Superb! Great effort Cara, and an amazing example of international collaboration 💥

[Defence Professor of Military Surgery @DefProfSurg]

Congratulations to Surg. Lt. Cdr. Cara Swain RN, who *nailed* the public defence of her surgical PhD yesterday! Huge thanks to her supervisors at @karolinskainst (where PhD examination requires candidates to literally nail their thesis to the Library wall). Well done Cara!

[Defence Professor of Military Surgery @DefProfSurg]

Medtech innovators, engineers, trauma clinicians, life-scientists. Get ready to apply @DASAccelerator to develop your gen-after-nxt device to halt Non Compressible Haemorrhage. Sign-up to the DASA mail-list at https://t.co/npVDSRdvDo to get alerts for Call launch in early Sept.