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SASEM: Cutting Edge Evidence-based Airway Management

By Rick Body / February 16, 2022

I gave this talk at the SASEM (Saudi Arabian Society for Emergency Medicine) conference, 2022. In this talk, I discuss recent practice-changing evidence relating to emergency airway management. I cover endotracheal intubation in out of hospital cardiac arrest (including the AIRWAYS-2 trial), video vs. direct laryngoscopy tips to optimise your view on laryngoscopy and maximise first pass success, and I cover the use of surgical cricothyroidotomy by London Ambulance Service.

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SASEM: Myths in resuscitation practice. St Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley / February 14, 2022

This week I am (virtually) presenting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the Saudi Arabian Society of Emergency Medicine 7th Scientific Assembly. It’s always a pleasure to join colleagues from Saudi

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JC: Etomidate vs. Ketamine for emergency intubation. St Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley / January 21, 2022

Just a quick review this week as this is a paper published back in December that has been superbly reviewed already over on the SGEM. However, it’s an interesting topic

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What is the Bezold-Jarisch Reflex and why do I care?! St Emlyn’s

By Rich Carden / January 12, 2022

Bradycardia in the trauma patient can be a perilous sign. One might observe a typical course of events in which a bleeding trauma patient progresses through the compensatory mechanisms in

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JC: Should we use calcium in out of hospital cardiac arrest? St Emlyn’s

By Laura Howard / January 7, 2022

A trial published in JAMA asks exactly this question, the full text can be found here. The abstract is below, but as we always say, please read the full paper

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JC: More on pulse oximetry and racial bias. St Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley / December 3, 2021

This week we are reviewing a paper on the accuracy of pulse oximetry in patients being assessed for ECMO. This is an interesting group as they represent and extremely unwell

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JC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax?

By Simon Carley / November 11, 2021

Back in 2016 we published a blog on chest drains and chest aspiration, in which we argued that the dogma of putting in huge drains for traumatic haemothoraces should be

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Learning from airway management in the ED: UK Perspective

By Dan Horner / November 4, 2021

This is the transcript for an invited talk at the recent Difficult Airway Society (DAS) 2021 virtual conference. It was lovely to be invited and great of the organisers to

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