Unfortunately, all these years later we haven’t made as much progress as we should have done across the world. The latest (2023) Lancet Countdown Report 'underscores the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms. Climate inaction is costing lives and livelihoods today, with new global projections revealing the grave and mounting threat to health of further delayed action on climate change’. How can we take action? What can we do? You can all achieve so much more than you believe, and we would like to guide, support and empower you to do so.
It's time for us to take action together.
Thoracostomy (the creation of an artificial opening in the chest wall) is a procedure performed for decompression of the chest, usually by our pre-hospital, surgical or emergency medicine colleagues. It is also the first stage to placing a tube thoracostomy or ‘open’ chest drain. In the context of trauma, emergency lateral thoracostomy is indicated in the following circumstances:
Since its launch in August 2018, the College has committed to improving the reliability, performance and general user experience of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLP) for our members. With the inclusion of three new curricula and of ICM users in late 2021, it became apparent that the added level of complexity and the need to support more users required additional funding, so a sizeable new budget was approved by the College’s Finance and Resources Board in August 2022.
This additional funding has allowed us to resolve many historic issues, keep the infrastructure and related systems up to date, as well as making significant improvements where needed. We still have a great deal of work to do, but as you will see below, we have already achieved a lot over the last year and have a clear plan of where we are heading in the coming months.
