JC: Push or Cut? Traumatic Cardiac Arrest
The management of traumatic cardiac arrest has been a popular topic over the past few years and featured in numerous social media and conferences. We’ve talked about here at St.Emlyn’s …
Critical Care
You Snooze, You Lose? #smaccUS The Child with Altered Consciousness
As a part of the #smaccMINI workshop back in Chicago in 2015, I spoke about the approach to the child with an altered conscious level. The podcast is below along …
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All the King’s Horses… difficult conversations with children in critical care. St.Emlyn’s.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again1. This blog tackles a really challenging topic in our theme around communication and wellbeing2–4. How do …
JC. Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia: The RINSE trial. St.Emlyn’s
This week we look at the RINSE trial1, a trial examining the prehospital use of hypothermia in post cardiac arrest patients. Therapeutic hypothermia has had a bit of a rollercoaster …
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JC: Helmets or masks for NIV. St.Emlyn’s
We use a lot of NIV in Virchester. It’s a great technique that can be started in the emergency department as a supportive therapy or as a bridge to intubation …
SMACCDUB – A Trainee’s Perspective. St.Emlyn’s
Having recently returned to the real world after attending SMACCDUB in Dublin, we thought we should try to articulate some of the things we learnt. Rich: Having only lost …
Bringing the Outdoor Classroom Indoors – #MedEd at #smaccFORCE #smaccDUB
Before February this year I had no prehospital experience whatsoever – so standing up in front of a crowd at the smacc prehospital workshop #smaccFORCE, I felt like a bit …
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CBRN: An Introduction. St Emlyn’s
yb It is a sad reality that in this day and age the world can be uncertain, volatile and dangerous place. Â CBRN (chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear) threats are real, and …