E88 Walt Biffl on Clinical Guidelines, Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury (BCVI) and Pancreatic Injuries by Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

This week we were joined by THE Dr. Walt Biffl, of the Biffl score for blunt cerebrovascular injury. We picked Dr. Biffl’s brain on what goes into generating good clinical guidelines. We then delve into his work on blunt cerebrovascular disease, and finally, on pancreatic trauma. As always, sends your questions, thoughts, and comments to podcast.cjs@gmail.com.

Links:

1. A tribute to Ernest E. “Gene” Moore. https://wjes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13017-018-0206-1

2. Duodeno-pancreatic and extrahepatic biliary tree trauma: WSES-AAST guidelines. https://wjes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13017-019-0278-6

3. WTA guidelines. https://www.westerntrauma.org/western-trauma-association-algorithms/

4. Evidence-based medicine in trauma/acute care surgery- what does that look like? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30274801/

5. Biffl scale on Radiopaedia. https://radiopaedia.org/articles/biffl-scale-for-blunt-cerebrovascular-injury