On Thursday 18th May the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released the updated head injury guidelines: assessment and early management [NG232] There have been three head injury […]
NICE Head Injury Guidelines 2023: Now who do we scan? Read More
At a basic level emergency care clinicians should be trained in Good Clinical Practice and able to recruit to trials. However some will want to make research into a larger
How to become a sub-specialist in emergency care research. St Emlyn’s Read More
Co-authored with Dan Darbyshire (@dsdarbyshire) Training and practicing in emergency medicine has been hard the last 18 months. The 2020 EMTA survey tells us where things are not working and
EMTA Survey 2020: The good, the bad and the ugly Read More
Coauthored with Edd Carlton (@EddCarlton) and Samantha Jones The COVID-19 pandemic has largely been a difficult time for us all. However, one positive has been the speed at which research
Emergency care research: top tips on how to get involved. St Emlyn’s Read More
Ed – Tom Shanahan (here in Virchester) recently published a paper on whether a Dutch prediction model is better at identifying major trauma patients than existing methods. The publication provoked
Can a prediction model improve major trauma triage? St Emlyn’s Read More
As we near the end of 2020, it is worth taking a moment to reflect on what a year it has been. At the beginning of the year we were
JC: Azithromycin in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 Read More
