Category: Coronavirus
COVID-19: Journal Club #2 – The Webinar
Welcome to our second webinar on recent research about COVID-19, hosted by the University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with St Emlyn’s. The live event took place …
COVID-19 and Blood Clots: Diagnosis, D-dimers and Dilemmas
In a future post I’ll discuss the latest NICE guidance1 on the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism. When writing that though I knew that for many of you COVID-19 currently consumes you and all …
Covid-19 Journal Club: The Director’s Cut #1. St Emlyn’s
Simon recently published on the challenges of practicing evidence based medicine during a pandemic. We are trying to work out what to do for our patients at the same time that research is emerging at …
COVID-19 and The Heart. St Emlyn’s
A 70 year old man presents to your Emergency Department (ED) with a three week history of cough and mild shortness of breath, but this is improving. Over the last two days he has had …
Covid19: Why we need Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) more than ever during a pandemic. St Emlyn’s
Evidence based medicine (EBM) is one of the four pillars of St Emlyn’s. We are usually pretty sceptical about adopting treatments without high quality evidence publishfred in a decent journal and with critical appraisal. Covid19 …
Covid19: Induction materials for docs redeployed to Emergency Medicine. St Emlyn’s
I think everyone is struggling with staffing issues at the moment. A combination of sickness and self isolation is decimating staffing rota in EDs around the world. Use these resources to share with those coming …
The #COVID-19 bubble: St Emlyn’s
Here in Virchester the number of patients with Covid-19 are ramping up and we are putting the incredible amount of training, simulations, education and more into practice. That time in preparation (we’ve been running daily …
Understanding Fear and Anxiety around COVID-19: A St Emlyn’s Podcast.
Over the last few years there has, thankfully, been more of a realisation that we need to look after ourselves and each other. “Wellbeing” is the hot topic, yet I don’t think anyone could’ve imagined …
Head Vs Heart: Opening the Box. St Emlyn’s
Ed- This blog post comes at an interesting and challenging time for us all. It was due to be given at #badEMfest in South Africa this week, but as we all know Covid-19 rather scuppered …
COVID-19 Children’s Q&A
These are uncertain times for us all, whatever your age. In this very special blog site only edition of the podcast I chat with my boys Archie (14), Jasper (12) and Rufus (8) to answer …