Synopsis: Don and Kate will present the case of a young male who fell down an embankment and suffered a crush injury to his chest. Despite aggressive resuscitation he deteriorated and required ECMO rescue therapy. Don and Kate will discuss this patient’s clinical course and role of ECMO in chest trauma in this particular case.
Biography: Dr Don Campbell is a Senior Staff Specialist Emergency Department and Deputy Director of Trauma at Gold Coast University Hospital. He has special interests in trauma system development and trauma quality improvement, and is Chair of both the GCUH Trauma Review and the QLD Trauma Data Advisory Committees. Research interests include acute coagulopathy in trauma and is a Principle Investigator of the FEISTY trial looking at fibrinogen replacement in trauma patients. He holds a Senior Lecturer position with Griffith University, and is regularly involved in trauma simulations held at GCUH.
Kate is a Trauma Nurse Practitioner with 21 years of experience in remote area, emergency and trauma nursing. She has been the lead nurse for the Trauma Service at the Gold Coast University Hospital since December 2013. She has a special interest in resuscitative and acute trauma care, EFAST and nurse case management in both hospital and community settings. She has recently established a Trauma Connect Clinic which aims to continue the case management model of nursing post discharge, which has been recognised as a unique aspect of Trauma Care delivery at GCUH.
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