Med-Fi: Chest pain in 2050
Read. more about our Med-Fi series here and see our future based content here. Fiona was relieved to have got the all clear for her heart health – it had
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Acute Medicine
Stay up to date with the latest in acute medicine, covering sepsis, respiratory failure, metabolic emergencies, and more. Our evidence-based posts provide practical guidance for emergency and acute care clinicians, focusing on rapid diagnosis, risk stratification, and management strategies to improve patient outcomes.
JC: Haloperidol for Headaches. St Emlyn’s
Lone acute severe headaches are a common and sometimes complex presentation to all Emergency Departments. There are obviously life threatening causes of a headache that we rule out with judicious
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Covid-19 in Italy with Roberto Cosentini part 2. St Emlyn’s
Ed – Back at the beginning of the pandemic we had a fantastic contribution from our friend and colleague Roberto Cosentini on the Bergamo experience of dealing with this terrible
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New NICE Guidelines on diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism
In the midst of everything that is going on with COVID-19, it is easy to see how important non-coronavirus stuff can get overlooked. But we still need to keep our
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Beyond the ED: COVID-19 and Critical Care
In this podcast, we talk about the clinical journey of a COVID-19 patient and some insights from the critical care unit. There are some concepts here that we probably don’t
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2019 Novel Coronavirus (Wuhan) at St Emlyn’s
Thursday afternoon, I brazenly told my director that the coronavirus needn’t warrant immediate concern. I didn’t want to add to the typical hysteria that leads to people purchasing too many
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Risk scores for cardiac chest pain: the first head-to-head comparison!
Suspected cardiac chest pain: everyone sees it, everyone has a different clinical pathway, and everyone has a different risk score for it. This week the Emergency Medicine Journal published our
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JC: Pulmonary Embolism – The PEGeD study
The use of clinical probability adjusted d-dimer thresholds for exclusion of pulmonary embolism
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