Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley review May 2022 on the St Emlyn’s blog and podcast. The episode includes routes into academic emergency medicine and a look ahead to plans for the year.
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A 2022 journal club examining the LOVIT trial of intravenous vitamin C in ICU patients with sepsis receiving vasopressors. It reviews death and persistent organ dysfunction outcomes, and reflects on how early enthusiasm for a treatment should be tested by stronger evidence.
JC: Vitamin C and sepsis (again). St Emlyn’s Read More
A 2022 appraisal of sex differences in tranexamic acid use after trauma. The review separates analyses of treatment effectiveness from registry data on prescribing, considering differences between patient groups and what the findings can explain about unequal treatment and where uncertainty remains.
Differential prescribing of TXA by gender. St Emlyn’s Read More
Simon and Iain look back at the St Emlyn’s blog and podcast from March and April 2022. They also mark the podcast passing one million downloads and thank listeners for their feedback.
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A 2022 journal club comparing anterior-posterior and anterior-lateral pad positions for elective cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. It reviews a randomised trial and asks how far its findings can be applied to emergency cardioversion or defibrillation for cardiac arrest.
JC: AP or AL position for cardioversion? St Emlyn’s Read More
The 200th St Emlyn’s podcast looks back at February 2022. Iain and Simon discuss resuscitation myths, airway management, resuscitative thoracotomy, advanced clinical practitioners and setting future research priorities.
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A 2022 appraisal of RePHILL, comparing prehospital packed red cells and freeze-dried plasma with saline for traumatic haemorrhagic shock. It examines the neutral trial result, composite outcomes and patient selection, and asks what questions remain about prehospital transfusion.
Simon and Natalie discuss the principles of feedback and the difficulties of conversations between clinical departments. This podcast considers feedback in education and clinical practice, with reference to Stone and Heen’s book Thanks for the Feedback.
Feedback update and the complexities of inter-speciality conversations. St Emlyn’s Read More
