Conference Reports

What does excellence in everyday emergency care look like? Drawing on his DFTB26 keynote in Glasgow, Simon Carley explores reliable practice, awareness of our own limitations and teams whose different strengths help them get the fundamentals right.

IncrEMentuM 2026 in Murcia was not a conventional Emergency Medicine conference. This reflection explores how its independent design, live simulation, hosted conversations, smaller faculty, translation, production values and global audience created a learning experience that felt connected to the realities of Emergency Medicine.

Simon Carley and Chris Gray report from the final day of RCEM's 2026 conference in Birmingham. Highlights include a thoracotomy demonstration, paediatric trauma and fracture studies, analgesia, and the opportunities and challenges of AI in emergency care.

A preview of ICEM 2026 in Hamburg, introducing the programme, St Emlyn’s speakers and the value of exchanging ideas across emergency care systems. Simon Carley reflects on what an international meeting can offer clinicians working in different settings.

Recorded at the London Trauma Conference 2024, Peter Brindley discusses social media, artificial intelligence and the responsibilities of a medical digital presence. The conversation explores misinformation, patient beliefs and the questions AI raises for clinical judgement.

Iain and Simon review the February 2025 posts, from maintaining rarely used procedural skills to diastolic pressure during resuscitation. They also discuss resuscitative hysterotomy and the updated guidance on diagnosing death.