Events
SEMS seminars: Defence Professor of Military Surgery and Trauma, Hon Professor of Surgery, Consultant Surgeon, Colonel Nigel Tai, QMUL & Royal London Hospital
Centre for Bioengineering
Date: 1 April 2025 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 
Location: SEMS Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Engineering Building
Title:
Non-Compressible Haemorrhage - a problem for Engineers?
Abstract:
Exsanguination - literally bleeding to death - is the biggest cause of preventable trauma death, both in military and civilian settings. New solutions to this problem are required, and engineers will be a vital part of the progress towards such solutions. This talk will convey the problem to an engineering audience and help generate background understanding.
About the speaker:
Colonel Nigel Tai is the UK Defence Professor of Military Surgery and an Honorary Professor of Trauma Surgery & Innovation at QMUL. He qualified as a doctor from University College London in 1991. He pursued surgical training in London, Essex and South Africa. He was appointed to the Royal London Hospital as Consultant in Trauma & Vascular Surgery in 2005, prior to commissioning in the Regular Army in 2006. He has undertaken numerous deployments to conflict zones around the world, and has been Clinical Director of the Royal London Hospital Major Trauma Service, Camp Bastion Hospital, the Army's 16 Medical Regiment and Barts Health Vascular Surgery Service. In 2019 he set up and led the medical innovation unit for Defence Medical Services and was appointed CBE in 2023.
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