David Naumann
@davidnnaumann
Father, surgeon-scientist, officer, musician, over-thinker, dilettante, cantab. Brummie minus the accent.
Excellent day at the West Midlands Surgical Society as always @WMSurgSoc @RCSEd Multi-specialty, diverse topics and people. Presentations from Foundation years to registrars… The future of surgery is bright! Ps even got a pink unicorn to take home as a bonus of the day! 🦄

Great to see that @SocSARS will be having a trauma and military surgical research segment in their next meeting surgicalresearch.org.uk @CommsC4TS @Paulvulliamy @DMS_MilMed @davidnnaumann @DaryllBaker
Abstract submission now opened for @SocSARS meeting
Whenever I discuss barbecuing with Americans, my usual lasting impression is that I need more grills! 🇺🇸🇬🇧
What’s the deal with people always suturing dirty wounds in films? Aargh. Painful trope every time 🤦🏻
REBOA for haemorrhagic shock is just like a “clamp” on the aorta and must be followed up almost immediately with surgery. I’ve discovered that this is a concept lots of people don’t understand.
Surgeons: Are you looking for a job in Trauma & Emergency General Surgery? The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a Major Trauma Centre that caters for England’s 2nd biggest city, co-housed with the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine Have a look gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Modern deployed experience from the contingency era @MilitaryH_BMJ Resilience measures for the attacked Role 2 facility militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/… The SHADER model: forward surgical teams managing high-intensity, low-frequency military surgery incidents militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/…
Early intensive care management for major trauma patients: 📖 🏥 Hot off the press from @BJAJournals: Part 1: bjaed.org/article/S2058-… Part 2: bjaed.org/article/S2058-… #Education #Trauma #MajorTrauma
🏆 Celebrating excellence in surgical training at #ASiT2025! 🏆 Introducing another outstanding nominee for the ASiT x Swann-Morton Silver Scalpel Award 2025… ✨ Miss Melissa Cunha, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University Hospitals of Birmingham ✨ 💬 “Surgical training is…
I wish all my Microsoft accounts could peacefully co-exist on the same computer/phone.
Wrote this some time ago but it applies today as it did then. “The illusion of quality improvement”: Are you able to recognise fake QI? Normally they’re quite “visual”, resistant to evidence, top-down edicts. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…