Torticollis: A Real Pain in the Neck
By the time you’ve worked in the Emergency Department for more than a week it’s highly likely you’ll have seen a patient who has a bit of a sore neck […]
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Behind the Scenes at St Emlyn’s
Hello again 🙂 We’d like to think you might have missed us a little in the last ten days or so when the St Emlyn’s blog has been offline (if
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JC: Getting Chilly Quickly 4. Doing It For The Kids
We have looked at therapeutic hypothermia not once, not twice, but three times already here at St Emlyn’s; most of our ED consultants also work, at least some of the time,
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Feeling Fit in Chicago: Join the smaccRUN!
Details of the long anticipated smaccRUN 2015 are finally here. Have a listen to the promo podcast featuring the seriously skilled, incredibly athletic half-man, half-machine that is Jesse Spurr, friend of
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JC: One Benzo Fits All? Lorazepam vs Diazepam for Paediatric Status Epilepticus
It’s been a little quiet of late here in the lofty towers of St Emlyn’s Virtual Hospital, not because the patients have stopped coming (trust me, they haven’t) but because
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EduWars: Sticky Eyes in Kids at the EMEC
Sticky eyes in kids… Dead easy to treat, right? Well… Maybe not. This post is a little different from the usual posts you’ll find on St Emlyn’s. It includes a
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JC: K is Good For You – Subdissociative Ketamine vs Morphine in the ED
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of ketamine and its clinical applications. So when I spotted this paper in my daily PubMed notification email (see here for tips from
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The SWEETest Sim – Real People, High Fidelity at #SWEETs15
In March 2015 I invited myself to the Swedish Emergency Medicine conference SWEETs in Stockholm. It was a huge privilege to learn about EM in Sweden and to work
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