Perimortem C-section at St.Emlyn’s
There are a few blog posts that seem to stick in the mind more than others, and certainly ones that I direct colleagues back to on a regular basis. One […]
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Critical Care
Explore essential critical care topics, including sepsis, respiratory failure, haemodynamic support, and trauma resuscitation. Our evidence-based posts provide practical guidance on managing critically ill patients in emergency and acute care settings.
Teamwork in Resus: Just Like Football?
A few weeks ago I was reading the most excellent Resus Room Management blog. It’s seriously awesome and you should check it out. [I’ve decided that all this social media
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New Surviving Sepsis Guidelines – What’s new? St.Emlyn’s
After much anticipation the new surviving sepsis guidelines have been published in critical care medicine. There will no doubt be much conversation, debate and discussion about this in the coming
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JC: Blunderbuss antibiotics in sepsis??
So, JC time again. Today, someone chose this paper from CCM regarding antibiotic monotherapy compared against an empirical combination strategy for treatment of severe sepsis. So hot off the press
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Getting Chilly Quickly 2…. Early hypothermia for ROSC?
By now, we all are thoroughly convinced as to the benefit of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. (if you don’t do this in your hospital, you really should not be seeing
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Getting Chilly Quickly at St.Emlyn’s
I was having a chat with one of my Cardiac anaesthetist chums the other day about ‘stuff’ and in particular some of the rather interesting work appearing in the literature
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Is this what we mean by critical care? Feedback at St.Emlyn’s
Over the years, we’ve been building up a profile of our virtual hospital, St. Emlyn’s. Here, let’s explore the way we reflect on cases in Emergency Medicine, and take a look at what might go
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ALS: Airway, Breathing, Capnography???
A Confession I have a guilty secret. I love cardiac arrests. Yep, I said it. As a brand new doctor, there was something exciting about dashing off to a 2222
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