Kadoorie Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine @UniofOxford; Consultant in Emergency Medicine @OUHospitals; Fellow @GreenTempleton; Doctor @TVAirAmb.
Joined December 2013
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📢We're pleased to announce that #CESER is now open!
The Cauda Equina Syndrome Early Recognition (CESER) Study is a mixed-methods study to improve diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome in the Emergency Department. Now recruiting! 🎉
See tinyurl.com/3cmen9np for more info
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Hot off the press! "Adult Emergency Medicine at a Glance" for medical students and anyone preparing to start work in an Emergency Department: tinyurl.com/4wat5jzv
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Apr 8
Read the full paper in @TheLancet: doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(2…
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Apr 8
A 5-year-old boy falls off a climbing frame and lands on his wrist.
Should you reduce the fracture - or simply put it in a nice cast and let it remodel?
Until now, people might have had strong views about this, but no-one really knew. 👇
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Apr 7
The CRAFFTstudy.org results coming Wednesday 8th April at 11.40am UK time.
Simultaneous presentation at the @eposorg meeting (finishing at 12.40 in Seville) and publication in @TheLancet .
The work of a huge group of people in the UK 🙏.
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David Metcalfe retweeted
Professor Harold Ellis died yesterday aged 100.
Fond memories of undergraduate anatomy at @Cambridge_Uni an inspiration and mentor to generations of doctors
May he rest in peace
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Mar 17
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: tinyurl.com/SWiFTNEJM
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Mar 6
Lovely final evening in @UniofOxford having dinner with @126Liam & @TraumaDataDoc. Great food & great company. Heading home…
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A major UK study has revealed that the financial burden of hip fractures extends beyond hospital walls, with social care costs often matching or exceeding medical treatment.
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Jan 11
You get asked to do a therapeutic pleural tap for this patient.
This is not that difficult but still very important to recognise.
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23 Dec 2025
In the WHiTE study, patients treated for extracapsular #hip #fractures with long cephalomedullary nails had equivalent recovery of quality of life compared with short cephalomedullary nails.
@gohenlin @TraumaDataDoc @xlgriffin @ProfJACook @Oxford_Trauma
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ALT Abstract text for article titled 'Clinical outcomes following treatment of extracapsular hip fractures with long compared with short cephalomedullary nails'. The Bone & Joint Journal.
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21 Dec 2025
We are recruiting a Consultant in Emergency Medicine. Join our team in #Oxford driving standards in clinical care, research, med student education, postgrad training, and POCUS within an organisation that is committed to supporting its Emergency Department beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/j…
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28 Nov 2025
Great to see @xlgriffin deliver his inaugural lecture at Queen Mary's, London — five years into his Prof job - never too late!
Great to see the difference he’s made (and continues to make) for patients worldwide.
@BoneAndJointHealth @QMUL @NHSBartsHealth @BritOrthopaedic
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David Metcalfe retweeted
21 Nov 2025
In the WHiTE study, patients with a complication after their hip fracture had worse quality of life & higher risk of death.
Read last month's most downloaded paper from the #BJJ.
#Fracture @gohenlin @TraumaDataDoc @xlgriffin @ProfJACook @Oxford_Trauma
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ALT The Bone & Joint Journal Paper of the Month. Article title: The impact of complications on quality of life and mortality after hip fracture Goh et al. Bone Joint J. 2025;107-B(10):1118-1124.
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26 Oct 2025
@RCollEM is launching the 5th round of the @ternfellow TERN Fellowship scheme providing 50% of the applicant’s salary per year for 2 years. Applications are invited from EM trainees at ≥ST3 level or equivalent. Read more and find our how to apply here rcem.ac.uk/research-awards-f…
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29 Sep 2025
Should we pause anti-coagulation to reduce the risk of delayed intracranial haemorrhage in anti-coagulated patients with head injury after a normal CT head? 'Probably not' according to data presented by Dr Patrick Oliver at #EUSEM2025 on behalf of @EMROxResearch.
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26 Sep 2025
Patient-related factors such as increasing age, male sex & higher comorbidity were associated with complications, which may explain the higher mortality & worse recovery in these groups.
@gohenlin @TraumaDataDoc @xlgriffin @ProfJACook @Oxford_Trauma
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ALT Abstract text for article titled 'Risk factors associated with the development of complications after a hip fracture'. The Bone & Joint Journal.
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28 Aug 2025
The CRAFFT study is in final analysis… soon we’ll have the answer we’ve all been waiting for: surgical reduction vs casting in children’s distal radius fractures.
🦴 Results in months!
👉 CRAFFTstudy.org
@PERUKItweep @BSCOS_UK
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12 Aug 2025
Regional anaesthesia for hip fracture
"Ultimately, the aim should not be to chase the ‘perfect’ block, but to find a patient-centred, pragmatic approach that delivers timely and lasting analgesia, minimises harm and can be scaled up for delivery by generalist clinicians in the acute setting."
@126liam @TraumaDataDoc
#anaesthesia #pain #regionalanaesthesia #regionalanesthesia #MedTwitter
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