Administration
Category: Administration
Thinking pragmatically about capacity
Editor: This is a guest post by Simon Horne. It is likely one of the last posts from Virchester before the festive season properly commences. Take care and stay safe. Happy holidays everyone! Three jobs, …
Cardiac output as a metaphor for flow through an urgent care setting
Flow through the urgent care setting, such as an emergency department (ED) is complex. There are a multitude of factors that affect flow through an urgent care setting. Systems research has shown that it is …
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 been an anxious few hours. …
Digital Disruption- Leveraging Technology To Stay On Top Of Your Game. St Emlyn’s
By Leah Flanagan, Mohammed Hamza, Cian McDermott It’s that time of day again. The first alarm has gone off. You roll over… and check your phone again. Social media and technology has permeated many aspects …
Changing Clinical Standards for Emergency Care. St Emlyn’s
Two cars with an average speed of 40 mph. Measuring speed Imagine you are flying down the highway in the car of your dreams, sunglasses on, the wind in your hair, great music playing and …
Lead yourself (through the COVID-19 pandemic). St Emlyn’s with Joke Van kerkhoven
Ed – We are delighted to publish a guest post from a great friend of St Emlyn’s, Joke from Belgium. She is one of a number of superb Belgian emergency clinicians that we have had …
Moral Injury during COVID-19. St Emlyn’s
Ed – We have previously covered the concept of moral injury on the blog and podcast, largely in respect to the experience of managing patients with traumatic injury. In 2020 the concept has been used …
Research, trainees and prioritisation in UK emergency medicine.
The UK Trainee Emergency Research Network (TERN) was created (officially) in 2018 and mentioned previously by Simon & Dan in this early digital outing. The initial mission was to demystify clinical research, improve access to research …
GBL Overdose and what to do about it
In what seems like an age ago I was asked to speak about Chemsex at the EuSEM conference in Prague. It was a (somewhat scary) privilege to talk to the crowd about Chemsex and in …
Look at what they make you give
Ed – We received this post just as the extent of the Coronavirus pandemic was becoming clear and thought it best to delay publishing until life in our Emergency Departments was slightly more “normal”. The …
