Conference Reports

An archived appeal from October 2014 to support African emergency medicine clinicians attending AFCEM in Addis Ababa. The post highlights the value of sharing experience across countries and resource settings, and the difficulties funding delegate participation during the Ebola outbreak.

A round-up from the final day of the College of Emergency Medicine’s 2014 Exeter conference. Short talk summaries cover traumatic cardiac arrest, major trauma in older people and traumatic bleeding, alongside reflections on how freely shared conference resources can extend learning beyond those attending in person.

Day two highlights from the College of Emergency Medicine’s 2014 Exeter conference, with short recordings on rugby medicine, quality improvement, chest pain assessment, atrial fibrillation and mental health. The collection also links to the college’s mental health toolkit and the other daily reports.

Short video summaries from the opening day of the College of Emergency Medicine’s 2014 Exeter conference. The selection spans emergency airway management, clinical judgement, FOAMed, temperature management after cardiac arrest, sepsis, stroke and blood gas testing, sharing speakers’ reflections shortly after their presentations.

Rick Body introduces his SMACC Gold 2014 talk, ‘The Heart Under Stress’, on using history, examination and troponin testing when assessing possible acute coronary syndrome. The accompanying post also reflects on turning research into an engaging conference presentation, with storytelling and humour alongside the clinical discussion.

Iain Beardsell reflects on the kindness and sense of community he encountered at SMACC Gold in 2014. He considers how friendships formed through social media can deepen face to face, and what a compassionate conference culture might bring back to everyday emergency care.