Category: Critical Care
January 2019 round up podcast. St Emlyn’s
Welcome to this month’s round up podcast with the St Emlyn;’s podcast. This month Simon is joined by Rick Body. Click on the play button below to listen to the podcast, or download to the …
JC: Can HEMS improve patient outcome in Traumatic Cardiac Arrest? St Emlyn’s
This week we are briefly looking at an interesting paper that suggests that HEMS services have much to offer in the management of traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA). We know that outcomes from TCA are poor, …
The Journey That Matters: Dr. Clare Richmond at #stemlynsLIVE
This podcast and presentation was recorded at the St Emlyn’s LIVE conference in Manchester 2018. In this presentation Clare takes us through the rationale, principles, training and practice that we need in order to continually …
Podcast: November 2018 round up St Emlyn’s
November was a busy month for the St Emlyn’s team with a variety of blogs on conferences, EBM, philosophy and education. Here’s the podcast and the links to the blogs mentioned in November. Click on …
#ICSSOA2018 Day 3. St Emlyn’s on tour
The tour continues. Although I admit it took me a bit longer to get out of bed this morning following the social agenda for the conference…. Day 3: Morning Another top 5 papers session covering …
St Emlyns on tour: ICSSOA2018. Monday.
St Emlyn’s is on tour (again) and this week I am at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art meeting in London. Always a truly international affair, with expert academic speakers from across the …
JC: Conservative management of chest trauma. St Emlyn’s
We have previously blogged on the topic of chest tube/drain management1. In one of our most widely read posts we argued that many pneumothoraces can be managed without a chest drain. When trained as a …
JC: Hypothermia in brain injury: The POLAR trial. St Emlyn’s.
Paradoxically hypothermia has been a ‘hot’ topic in emergency medicine and critical care for many years. There is good laboratory, animal and pathophysiological data to suggest that it should be neuro-protective in a broad range …
#stemlynsLIVE: Five free strategies to improve your resuscitation practice. St Emlyn’s
This week we are hosting the #stemlynsLIVE conference here in Manchester. We are so excited to be bringing together an amazing faculty for a day of talks, workshops, panel discussions and skill stations designed to …
JC: The Zero Point Survey. Optimising resuscitation teams in the ED. St Emlyn’s
This blog explains the rationale for the zero point survey1–3. This starts before the primary survey that we are all familiar with and is a means of optimising the performance of resuscitation teams in critical …