What happens beyond initial survival after cardiac arrest? This 2017 review of Danish registry data explores associations between bystander CPR or defibrillation and longer-term outcomes, emphasising that the analysis concerns 30-day survivors and cannot establish causation on its own.
JC: Bystanders make the difference in cardiac arrest. St.Emlyn’s Read More
The St Emlyn’s team reflects on being shortlisted for Education Team of the Year at the 2017 BMJ Awards. The post celebrates HeartWize’s winning school CPR project, thanks supporters and shares the experience of bringing the team together.
#theBMJawards night. St.Emlyn’s Read More
An archived invitation to help shape the critical care education panel at dasSMACC in Berlin in June 2017. Simon Carley outlines the session’s purpose and asks what opportunities, challenges and questions mattered to the clinicians and educators attending.
#dasSMACC Education panel: Get involved. St.Emlyn’s. Read More
Would your hospital’s major incident plan work with the staff and resources actually available? This 2017 conference companion explores usable action cards, familiar roles, scalable command structures and local training, with attention to regional networks and an all-hazards approach.
Major incident planning at the 14th ACCS meeting. St.Emlyn’s Read More
A selection of trauma papers from 2016–17 explores whole-body CT, traumatic brain injury, coagulopathy, cardiac arrest and airway care. This Trauma Care conference companion weighs findings against study limitations and asks which results might meaningfully change emergency practice.
Top 10+1 trauma papers 2016-17. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Anand Swaminathan revisits his SMACCDub argument for considering thrombolysis in selected patients with submassive pulmonary embolism. This 2017 opinion piece weighs possible functional benefits against major bleeding, emphasising patient selection, shared decisions and the uncertainty in the evidence available then.
Should selected cardiac arrest patients bypass their nearest hospital for a specialist centre? This 2017 review examines a London pilot trial, explaining its narrow patient group and why demonstrating feasibility is different from establishing an improvement in survival.
JC: Cardiac arrest centres and bypass. St.Emlyn’s Read More
How should emergency medicine education change when information is instantly available and learning crosses borders? This 2017 talk companion challenges fact-recall assessments, explores personal learning networks and argues that online engagement must be accompanied by critical appraisal skills.
The future of Emergency Medicine Education in the Social Age. St.Emlyn’s Read More
