Evidence from academic studies, professional bodies, coroners, NHS trusts and patient-safety investigators increasingly links corridor care and prolonged emergency department boarding with avoidable harm. Stevan Bruijns asks whether the evidence now warrants a formal public inquiry.
Corridor care and boarding harm: how much evidence is enough? Read More
St Emlyn’s practical guide to ketamine use as a Trauma Team Leader, including analgesia, procedural sedation, delayed sequence induction, dosing and monitoring. #FOAMed
TTL tips 16: Ketamine in trauma patients. Read More
It is tempting to think that expertise comes from accumulating enough facts, passing enough exams or simply spending 10,000 hours at work. In this episode, Iain Beardsell is joined by emergency physician, intensivist and medical educator Sara Crager to explore why expertise is less about how much we know and more about how we think.
Ep 294 – Experts Are Made, Not Born: Sara Crager on Mental Models and Rapid Sequence Read More
Great review from Stevan.
Emergency medicine clinicians are increasingly asked to balance brutal realities with hope for a better future. Drawing on the Stockdale paradox, NHS Staff Survey data, moral injury research and personal experience, this reflective article explores burnout, leadership, crowding and why surviving difficult systems depends not only on resilience, but on having colleagues who have our back.
The limits of holding on to realism and hope alone Read More
Struggling with vascular access in trauma? Practical tips on IO access, central lines, external jugular access and rapid alternatives for trauma resuscitation.
TTL Tip 15: Alternative vascular access Read More
Medical boarding extracts a crowding tax in deaths, delays and bed-days. New research quantifies it, and suggests it is fixable from within.
JC: Boarding, the crowding tax and a fixable problem Read More
We’ve built a simple RCEM syllabus self-assessment tool based on the clinical syllabus domains in the RCEM curriculum. Designed for trainees, consultants and educators in emergency medicine, this interactive radar tool helps identify strengths, knowledge gaps and learning needs across the breadth of emergency medicine practice.
Syllabus Self-Assessment Tool: Map Your Emergency Medicine Profile Read More
We’ve built a simple SLO self-assessment tool based on the 12 RCEM Specialty Learning Outcomes in the RCEM curriculum. Designed for trainees, consultants and educators in emergency medicine, this reflective tool helps clinicians visualise strengths, development needs and their overall training profile using an interactive radar chart. It’s not an RCEM product but relates to the curriculum.
Speciality Learning Outcomes Self-Assessment Radar (based on RCEM curriculum) Read More
