PEM Review – PEMLit at #IAEM15
This week I was honoured to present a “blast talk” at the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine Conference in Cork. I love the idea of blast talks – quick fire, […]
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Information Overload – Keeping Up-To-Date at #RCEM15
This might be a familiar sight to you – this is the mail tray of one of my colleagues. I usually get my EMJs out of the wrapper but only
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Better Than Cure? Public Health in the ED at #RCEM15
Is public health a problem in the UK? Well, prior to this year’s general election, healthcare and the NHS were consistently top concern for voters. But the public are worried and
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Get the Best from Your Rest – Sleep Hygiene at St Emlyn’s
Sleep is absolutely one of my favourite things in the world. It can also be one of the most elusive. Almost all ED docs, by necessity, work some sort of
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Back Pain in the Emergency Department
This post is part of the St Emlyn’s induction series and accompanies the podcast below. Firstly, when seeing patients with back pain take a deep breath and try to leave
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JC: Don’t Write off the Respiratory Rate – Part Two
So, now we know what to do with an unexplained abnormal respiratory rate in a baby – but how do we know what constitutes an abnormal respiratory rate? That’s the
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JC: Don’t Write off the Respiratory Rate – Part One
Two really interesting PEM-relevant papers appeared online first in Archives of Disease in Childhood in July – and happy days, both are FOAM! What’s great about these papers is how
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Major Trauma – Have your say on the NICE guidance for Major Trauma
A draft of the NICE guidance on assessment and management of major trauma was released this morning for stakeholder consultation. If you work in a major trauma centre, in a trauma
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