Risk proximity is an important concept. In simple terms it just describes the time from an event happening and the risk potentially occuring. It’s not something that we often think […]
Emergency medicine, a risky business part 7: Risk proximity Read More
So what do we mean by a miss exactly? Is it always a terrible thing and why is it that if we constantly miss diagnoses (we do you know) we
Emergency Medicine: A risky business part 6. How many steps to disaster? Read More
Emergency Medicine: A risky business part 5. Does a correct diagnosis mean that the therapy will work? In the previous post in this series around diagnostics we have looked at
Welcome back to the 4th part of the series looking at understanding risk and diagnosis in Emergency Medicine. In part 3 we looked at how tests with apparently high sensitivities
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Emergency medicine is a risky business. In this continuing series looking at how we as emergency physicians look at risk we are going to spend a bit of time looking
How to consider thresholds for labelling in the diagnostic process. Diagnosis does not guarantee treatment success or failure.
Emergency Medicine, a risky business part 2. Read More
Time to think about whether you are really an emergency medicine diagnostician… Are you a diagnostician? Of course you are! Why do I even need to ask? Well, to be
Emergency Medicine, a risky business part 1. You are not a diagnostician. Read More
Dan Horner reviews the JAMA paper on remifentanyl vs. neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBs) for RSI. #FOAMed @stemlyns
Keep on blocking in the free world. Remi vs. NMB for RSI. St Emlyn’s Read More
This is the transcript for an invited talk at the recent Difficult Airway Society (DAS) 2021 virtual conference. It was lovely to be invited and great of the organisers to
Learning from airway management in the ED: UK Perspective Read More
We see a lot of patients in the ED with a history of what sounds very much like a transient ischaemic event (TIA). By definition the patient will have had
JC: Canadian TIA risk score. St Emlyn’s Read More
