Kat Evans shares her perspective on emergency medicine in South Africa in this recording from St Emlyn’s Live 2018. The post offers video and audio versions of her presentation, with links to badEM and related accounts of working and learning in South African emergency departments.
Lessons from a South African ED. Kat Evans at #stemlynsLIVE Read More
Simon Carley brings together ten trauma papers and resources for the 2019 TraumaUK conference. The selection spans prehospital plasma, airway management, resuscitation, head injury, emergency laparotomy and paediatric splenic injury, ending with the Zero Point Survey and preparation before resuscitation begins.
Top 10 trauma papers 2018-2019 for TraumaUK conference. St Emlyn’s Read More
What should emergency clinicians ask when an adult with congenital heart disease attends the ED? This 2019 introduction explores altered anatomy, previous repairs and acute presentations, emphasising patients’ knowledge, specialist-team involvement and resources for further learning rather than offering a comprehensive management guide.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the Emergency Department Read More
Should ventilation continue between induction and laryngoscopy during rapid sequence intubation? This 2019 appraisal examines a randomised trial in critically ill adults, weighing oxygen desaturation and aspiration outcomes against differences in technique, preoxygenation and the applicability of ICU findings to emergency departments.
JC: Should we continue ventilations during RSI? St Emlyn’s Read More
Simon Carley and Rick Body revisit January 2019 on the St Emlyn’s podcast. The accompanying article links include ketamine sedation, prognostication after cardiac arrest, HEMS in traumatic cardiac arrest, tetanus guidance and reflections on wellbeing and professional development.
Podcast – January 2019 Monthly Round Up Read More
Why do some bleeding trauma patients die after surviving the initial resuscitation? This 2019 discussion of an editorial by Karim Brohi and John Holcomb examines changing patterns of mortality, possible mechanisms of later deaths and the need to consider the whole trauma system.
JC: Why do bleeding trauma patients die? St Emlyn’s Read More
Explore the papers and resources Simon Carley selected for SASEM 2019 in Jeddah. This conference reading list brings together prehospital resuscitation, airway management, oxygen therapy, chest and head injury, cardiac arrest prognostication and the Zero Point Survey, with links to earlier critical appraisals.
#SASEM2019: Top 10+1 papers Read More
Can helicopter emergency medical services improve survival after traumatic cardiac arrest? This 2019 appraisal examines a retrospective UK cohort, distinguishing procedures and return of circulation from survival to hospital discharge, and questioning what a small, uncontrolled dataset can tell us about benefit.
JC: Can HEMS improve patient outcome in Traumatic Cardiac Arrest? St Emlyn’s Read More
