Stephen E McCabe MBChB FRCS (Ed) FRCS (Glas) FCEM
Curriculum Vitae
CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS:
Personal Assistant:
Christine Dance
Address:
McCabeMedicoLegal Limited
5 Brecon Close
Quedgeley
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL2 4TS
Tel & Fax No:
01452 540 818
Email:
enquiries@mccabemedicolegal.co.uk
Website:
www.mccabemedicolegal.co.uk
Qualifications:
MBChB Glasgow
FRCS Ed
FRCS Glas
ATLS
FFAEM
1978
1982
1982
1991
1994 (changed to FCEM in 2008)
Membership of Societies:
British Medical Association
British Association for A&E Medicine – Honorary Secretary
Faculty of A&E Medicine – Founding Fellow
College of Emergency Medicine (Examiner)
UK Registrar of Expert Witnesses
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Medical Defence No:
GMC Registration No:
BMA No:
MDDUS No:
MC/08/0433
2336572
1443276-79
M118550
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Positions Held:
Honorary Secretary British Association for A&E Medicine (1998 –2004)
Founding Fellow Faculty of A&E Medicine Joint Colleges (1994)
Chairman Paramedic Steering Group Gloucestershire (1989 – 1996)
Chairman Hospital Audit Committee (1994 – 1998)
Southwest Regional Representative BAAEM National Executive (1992-1998)
Co-founder Regional MTOS (Multiple Trauma Outcome Study) Group
Regional Registrar Training Committee (1990 – present)
College Examiner Emergency Medicine FCEM exam (present)
Career and Training:
1973-1978
1978-1979
1979-1980
1980-1983
1982
1983-1984
1984-1988
1988
1988 to date
MBChB University of Glasgow
Houseman Paisley Royal Alexandria Infirmary
SHO Orthopaedics Glasgow Royal Infirmary
SHO/Registrar Surgical Rotation Glasgow
FRCS Glasgow & Edinburgh
Research Registrar Intensive Care “Shock Team”
Western Infirmary, Glasgow
Senior Registrar, Accident & Emergency
Taunton/Bath/Frenchay rotation covering Plastic Surgery, Burns, Neurosurgery and
Paediatrics
Full Accreditation in A&E Higher Professional Training
Consultant in Accident & Emergency at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
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Summary
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I have been a fully accredited Accident & Emergency Consultant since 1988 and am currently
Senior Consultant in Accident & Emergency Department at Gloucester Royal Hospital.
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I was a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Accident & Emergency in 1995 and a Fellow of the Royal
Colleges of Glasgow and Edinburgh since 1982.
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I am an Examiner for the final College of Emergency Medicine Exam (FCEM),
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Medico-legal work has been a major interest over the last 18 years, attending training seminars on
Woolf reports, giving expert evidence in court and report preparation in general.
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My medico-legal work has involved the preparation of approximately 500-700 reports a year, joint
statements with colleagues, pre-trial negotiations and giving expert witness evidence in the High
Court and the Court of Appeal. The latter includes being cross-examined by Michael Mansfield QC
in the Court of Appeal.
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I was trained in general surgery and orthopaedics in Glasgow and in A&E on the Bristol rotation.
During the latter I undertook training attachments in neurosurgery, plastics and burns at Frenchay
Hospital, Paediatrics at the Bristol Children’s Hospital and further Orthopaedic training in Taunton
and Bristol.
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My work at Gloucester Royal Hospital includes interests in major trauma, head and neck injuries,
resuscitation, sports and soft tissue injury.
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Neck injuries constitute the majority of cases in my personal injury practice.
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I have published widely on trauma, fractures and emergency medicine, and am a referee for
papers for the Journal of A&E Medicine.
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I was the sole author of a review chapter on ‘Neck Injuries’ in a CD-ROM for personal injury
lawyers, principally entitled ‘MedicoLegal Solutions – Personal Injury and Criminal Trauma’
(Medicolegal Publications).
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I was involved in the national launch of the ‘Whiplash Book’ for patients and the ‘Whiplash (WAD)
Training Pack’ for professionals at the Royal Society of Medicine in January 2003.
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Recently published a doctors guide to writing reports on neck and back injuries on Doctors.net, the
UK’s largest online resource for doctors education entitled “ Excellence in preparing medicolegal
reports “
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I am currently collaborating with Prof.M.Cooke in the national “MINT” trial of physio vs. standard
treatment in Neck Injuries with over 500 patients recruited thus far (Nov 2007).
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Publications
Neck Injuries/Medicolegal
1. “ Excellence in medicolegal reporting “ Invited as an expert, to prepare an online 6,000 word review of best
practice in writing reports on personal injury with emphasis on neck and back injuries. Published September 2006 on
Doctors.net the UK’s largest online educational for doctors run by doctors
2. ‘Personal Injury and Criminal Trauma’ Vols. 1.1 & 1.2 published by Medicolegal Publications.
Mr McCabe was sole author of a review chapter (12,000 words, 13 major references, and many more other papers
reviewed) on ‘Soft Tissue Injuries of the Cervical Spine’ covering aspects such as Prognosis, Pathology, Anatomy,
Investigations and Treatment. The chapter is written as an aid for the personal injury lawyer or insurance broker
rather than for doctors.
The CD includes contributions from experts such as Professor Bernard Knight, Forensic Pathologist on ‘Wounds and
Stabbings’.
Books
‘Resuscitation after trauma’ – S McCabe
Chapter 9 ‘Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation’ Edited by Dr P J F Baskett
Anaesthesia Monograph Series published by Elsevier Publishers 1990
‘Lung water in relation to sepsis’ Ledingham I McA, Woodcock T, McCabe S, Ramsay G & Wallace P. Chapter in
‘Pulmonary problems in Intensive Care Medicine’.
Iphrazam Medical Forum 1986: 10:30-36
Papers
Burns in Children - Accident or Abuse?
Benger J., McCabe S.
Emergency Medical Journal May 2001
The use of audit to set up a Thrombolysis programme in the Accident & Emergency department.
Kendall J M, McCabe S E.
Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine,January 1996, Vol 13:1:49-53
Thrombolysis in the A&E Department – The audit approach
McCabe S E, Kendall J M
Network, September 1194 (16) 1-4
Topical anaesthetic for the suturing of childhood lacerations: an acceptable approach?
Kendall J M, Charters A C, McCabe S E.,
Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine March 1996 13 119
A tide of change in the management of an old fracture?
Kendal J M, Allen P, McCabe S E.
Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine , September 1995 Vol. 12:3 pp 187-9
Prospective comparison of Biers and Haematoma blocks in the reduction of Colle’s fractures
Kendall, J M, Allen P, Younge P, Meek S, McCabe S E.,
Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine September 1195 Vol 12:3:pp 247-8
A new chart to assist with Advanced Trauma Life Support
Palmer I P, Baskett P J F, McCabe S E ,
J R Army Med. Corps. 1992:138:pp118-125
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Correlation of Pain and X-ray Appearances with Traction Splintage in the Immediate Management of Lower Limb
Fractures
McCabe S E, Small D J, Troughton A H.
Br. J. Assoc. Immed. Care 1991: 14(1)
‘Ultrasound guided needle aspiration of the obstructed catheter’
McCabe S, Patterson J.
BMJ 1984:289:pp837
‘Sickness score evaluation in MICU patients’
Bion J F, McCabe S E, Edlin S, Ramsay G, Ledingham I McA
BMJ 1985:291:pp 432-4
‘Extravascular lung water in CAVG surgery’
McCabe S, Woodcock T, Wallace P
Scottish Medical Journal, October 1984
Current Research
I am currently undertaking a Prospective study on the effectiveness of acute aspiration of blood from the Elbow Joint
after Fractures of the Radial Head.
I am also collaborating with the University of Warwick study of Physiotherapy vs conventional advice in acute WAD
patients (the MINT trial) with Professor Matthew Cooke.
Audit
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See Thrombolysis (above) *
CPR standards in GRH Cardiac Arrest (Annual)*
Multiple Trauma Outcome Scoring (Regional and local)*
Paracetamol Overdose (Regional and local)*
Junior Doctors bleep response
Neck of Femur transit through A&E*
Clinic referral outcome audit*
X-ray interpretation errors
(* Denotes ongoing)
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