JC: Blood Products in Trauma – What’s the Best (I)TACTIC?
Bleeding trauma patients present a couple of challenges to us in the Emergency Department. Increasingly, our aging population continues to engage in energetic daily pursuits while increasing numbers are prescribed newer direct oral anticoagulant treatments …
Head Vs Heart: Opening the Box. St Emlyn’s
Ed- This blog post comes at an interesting and challenging time for us all. It was due to be given at #badEMfest in South Africa this week, but as we all know Covid-19 rather scuppered …
JC: Virtual Reality for Distraction from Paediatric Procedural Pain
Ed – At the SMACC conference our good friend and simulation guru Jesse Spurr 1 talked about virtual reality as a future technique for education and for therapy. It’s an area that we’ve not really …
JC: Enter Sandman – Which Agent as Second Line in Paediatric Status Epilepticus?
Appraisal and reflections on the recently published ConSEPT and EcLiPSE trials – what do they mean for the treatment of paediatric status epilepticus?
JC: Taking the PESIT – How Common is PE Among ED Patients with Syncope?
You might remember the tremendous stink around PE prevalence caused by the outcomes of the Pulmonary Embolism in Syncope Italian Trial (PESIT)1 from when it was published back in 2016; we covered it here at St …
A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Four
This post is the final post of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th October 2018. …
A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Three
This post is the third of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th October 2018. You …
So Unsexy – Why We Shouldn’t Use The Word Sexy in Clinical Medicine #FIX18
The following post is a transcript of my talk at #FIX18 in New York. You can listen to the podcast of the talk here https://feminem.org/podcast/so-unsexy/ You can watch a video of the presentation here and …
A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Two
This post is the second of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th October 2018. You …
In Pursuit of Excellence at #StEmlynsLive
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where-“ said Alice. …