A tribute to Dr John Hinds, bringing together memories, interviews and teaching shared by the emergency and critical care community after his death in July 2015. Links include colleagues’ reflections, his trauma talks and a recording of ‘Danny Boy’ dedicated to him.
RIP Dr. John J Hinds Read More
This school-bus sized hunk of metal and glass is responsible for some of humanity’s greatest discoveries. Let’s take a look at 25 years of Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble Space Telescope turns 25 Read More
A short report and podcast from the opening day of SMACC Chicago 2015. The St Emlyn’s team reflects on the plenary sessions and the challenge of choosing between parallel talks, with links to its workshop round-up and the Birmingham team’s coverage.
#smaccUS day 1. A bountiful cornucopia of Medutainment. Read More
The St Emlyn’s team opens its coverage of SMACC Chicago 2015 with a podcast about the pre-conference workshops. This brief introduction marks the start of the team’s reports from the meeting, sharing its workshop reflections before the main conference programme began.
#smaccUS day 0 – the workshops. St.Emlyn’s Read More
How much does describing chest pain as ‘typical’ tell us about the final diagnosis? Simon Carley reviews a 2015 observational study of clinician judgement, questioning the value of experience alone and examining how patient selection, specificity and the presentation of diagnostic performance affect interpretation.
JC: Are typical chest pain symptoms predictive of outcome? St.Emlyn’s Read More
Simon Carley selects ten trauma papers from 2014–2015, with an accompanying discussion with Simon Laing. The review spans transfusion, brain injury, prehospital care, airway management, haemorrhage prediction and thoracotomy, linking to the original studies and highlighting questions raised by this period’s trauma research.
Top 10 Trauma papers 2014-2015. St.Emlyn’s Read More
An archived preview of St Emlyn’s contributions to SMACC Chicago 2015, covering clinical judgement, paediatrics, medical error, troponin, compassion and education. The post captures the team’s preparations and enthusiasm for the meeting, with links to the original programme and earlier conference recordings.
Join St.Emlyn’s at SMACC in Chicago. You know you should. Read More
Can a trauma team leader’s early judgement predict which patients will need massive transfusion? Simon Carley examines a 2015 study comparing clinical gestalt with scoring systems, questioning the outcome definition, selection of patients and the limits of relying on a single early assessment.
Guess or Gestalt in Major Trauma at St.Emlyn’s Read More
