Acute Medicine Archives • Page 4 of 6 • St.Emlyn's

Troponin: more than a marker of infarction?

By Rick Body / September 8, 2017

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Icatibant for ACE inhibitor induced angioedema

By Rick Body / June 15, 2017

Patients presenting to the ED are tending to get older, have more co-morbidities and take more medications. As this happens, in my experience we seem to see more patients with

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Getting your chest pain evaluation right: #UMECS16

By Rick Body / April 5, 2016

Last week, while Iain was giving a keynote lecture in Austria, I was also heading for distant shores to speak about chest pain evaluation at a special conference set up

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All you need to know about CHEMSEX but never dared to ask… St.Emlyn’s

By Janos Baombe / December 12, 2015

CHEMSEX and public health issues for the emergency department and physician.

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Taking a sexual history in ED

By Janos Baombe / August 4, 2015

Emergency physicians often feel that taking a sexual history in EDs is something medical school and specialty training have not prepared them very well for. This comes as no surprise

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The MACS rule: a new user-friendly version

By Rick Body / January 28, 2015

This blog post is based on a paper we’ve just had published in the Emergency Medicine Journal entitled: ‘The Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) decision rule: validation with a new

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Get the NOAC Knowhow: Novel Oral Anticoagulants Part 1

By Rick Body / January 18, 2015

Where would we be without warfarin? The good old rat poison has served us brilliantly for decades, allowing us to anticoagulate patients to treat and prevent venous thromboembolism, prevent stroke

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