Writing from EMCON 2026 in Mumbai, Iain Beardsell considers how technology can help doctors learn without replacing the people who teach them. A missed diagnosis, a call for help and the difficulty of finding time to talk raise questions about trust, supervision and becoming ready for independent practice.
Who do you trust? Teaching in the age of AI Read More
How do you decide when you don’t have all the information? Iain Beardsell revisits Tactical Trauma to explore the judgements behind major incident care, triage, eCPR and trauma ECMO.
Ep 300 – Decisions Under Pressure: Knowing When to Act in Emergency Care Read More
Which patients with chest pain actually need a troponin? Rick Body looks at how much we can trust the history, cardiovascular risk factors and our own clinical judgement before deciding to test.
Ep 299 – Which patients with chest pain need a troponin test? Read More
Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley revisit the February 2026 posts on trauma team leadership and feedback. The discussion covers interpreting CT reports, maintaining momentum after imaging, purposeful log rolls and making feedback specific enough for learners to use.
Ep 293 – Making Feedback Sticky, TTL Tips and more (February 2026 round up) Read More
Recorded at Trauma 2030 at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, the conversation explores what it means to lead exceptional teams in one of the most high-pressure areas of emergency medicine. Anna reflects on six years as Clinical Lead for London HEMS, sharing lessons on leadership, culture, psychological safety, difficult conversations, managing strong personalities, and supporting clinicians to do their best work.
IncrEMentuM 2026 in Murcia was not a conventional Emergency Medicine conference. This reflection explores how its independent design, live simulation, hosted conversations, smaller faculty, translation, production values and global audience created a learning experience that felt connected to the realities of Emergency Medicine.
IncrEMentuM 2026 – Inspirational Emergency Medicine in Murcia Read More
In this episode, recorded at Trauma 2030 at the Royal College of Surgeons, I sit down with one of St Emlyn’s own, Rich Carden, former emergency physician, now intensive care trainee and PhD graduate in trauma sciences — to explore what shock actually means beyond the blood pressure reading.
In this episode, we talk to Sheldon Cheskes about the evolving science of cardiac arrest, with a focus on refractory and recurrent ventricular fibrillation. We explore the evidence behind double sequential external defibrillation (DSED), how it compares to standard defibrillation, and what the DOSE VF trial has changed in practice. It’s about understanding why defibrillation fails, how vector and energy delivery matter, and when a different approach might improve outcomes.
Epi 289: Refractory VF, Double Sequential Defibrillation, and the Future of Cardiac Arrest Read More
