Treating pain in the Emergency Department is a skill, and a really important one. Although we’d like to think otherwise, saving lives actually accounts for only a very small part of what […]
When pain relief is not enough in the Emergency Department. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Look carefully at the ECG is your don’t want to miss a STEMI
Cardiology Case 03: Are you missing the STEMI? St. Emlyn’s Read More
Most people I talk to who work in Emergency or Acute Medicine hate chest pain. Personally I think they’re crazy but I can see where they’re coming from. Chest pain
JC. ACS: Antiplatelets ACCOAST-ed? Read More
Last week we published our first ‘Ethical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine’ post, complete with a hypothetical scenario that hopefully got you thinking! I was quite humbled by the quality of
Ethical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine Part 2 Read More
Emergency Medicine is a specialty that you may not think involves a lot of ethical dilemmas. The obvious issues like abortion, euthanasia and reproductive ethics affect other people. However,
Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine Part 1 Read More
As FOAM grows, tweeting at healthcare conferences is going mainstream. Â At the #ICEM2012 conference, Mike Cadogan (@sandnsurf) announced that ICEM 2012 had been the most tweeted about healthcare conference in
No Tweeting, Please. Healthcare Conference in Progress Read More
We’ve had some great recent posts at St. Emlyn’s on the use of ketamine and LAT gel for children undergoing procedures in the Emergency Department. In this post I’m going to discuss
Driving children to distraction: Techniques for the PED Read More
This week Sir Alex Ferguson retired as the manager of Manchester United Football Club, after 26 highly successful years in charge. Â Sir Alex has been an inspiration to me, in
Sir Alex Ferguson and Emergency Medicine Read More
