Cardiac Troponin: The basics from St. Emlyn’s
Do you remember when it took three days to ‘rule in’ or ‘rule out’ an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? When I was a medical student doing my first clinical attachments, …
How accurate is clinical judgement for acute coronary syndromes?
This blog post is based on the paper published in the EMJ this week – Body R et al. Can emergency physicians rule in or rule out acute coronary syndromes …
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Stephen Covey and medical leadership part 2: Begin with the end in mind
Recently we published the first of a new series looking at the lessons we can learn in medicine from Stephen Covey’s legendary book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’. …
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Cardiology Case 04: An unusual ECG
Here we go with another Cardiology Case at St. Emlyn’s. If you haven’t already, check out the other cases in this series: Cardiology case 01 Cardiology case 02: ST depression, no …
JC: Plasma-lyte or Saline in Trauma? St. Emlyn’s
We’ve been having debates about what fluids to use in trauma and sepsis for about as long as – well – about as long as we’ve had fluids. We’ve had quite a …
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Leadership pearls from Stephen Covey part 1: Be proactive
There are some books you read that change your life. In this new series at St. Emlyn’s I’m going to tell you about one that changed mine – and I …
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The MACS Rule: Immediate ‘rule in’ and ‘rule out’ for suspected cardiac chest pain
This post is about a paper we published today in Heart – the result of more than 9 years of work – phew! Here’s a link to the paper (open …
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Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine part 3: Is Primum non nocere timeless or ridiculous?
If you haven’t been following this series, you can also find part 1 and part 2 on the blog. Part 3: Primum, non nocere When I was a green young …