Free Webinar - From Scene to Survival: A Systems Approach to Road Injury and Post-Collision Care

ABSTRACT

Road injury is not a single clinical event but a system response that begins at the moment of impact. The Road Injury Chain of Survival provides a framework for understanding how early recognition, rescue, initial care, transport and definitive hospital management interact to influence outcomes.

This session will introduce the Road Injury Chain of Survival and explore how scene characteristics, collision dynamics, vehicle damage patterns and entrapment features relate to early morbidity and mortality. It will examine which interventions appear most closely associated with improved outcomes, where the evidence gaps remain, and how better integration of clinical and investigative data could strengthen both injury prediction and system performance.

The aim is to encourage discussion about how we can work across traditional boundaries - identifying the data points that matter most, understanding mechanisms of deterioration, and improving the overall post-collision response.

Professor Tim NutbeamMB ChB PhD FRCEM FIMC FRRHH MSc
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Post-Collision Care

Tim is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Plymouth and a Consultant in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine with Devon Air Ambulance. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Post-Collision Care at the University of Plymouth and Director of IMPACT – The Centre for Post-Collision Research, Innovation and Translation.

His work focuses on extrication science, entrapment, injury prediction and systems-level improvement in post-collision care. He has led national and international research examining how collision characteristics, rescue practices and early clinical decision-making influence patient outcomes, with particular emphasis on translating evidence into practice.