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Patients presenting to the ED are tending to get older, have more co-morbidities and take more medications. As this happens, in my experience we seem to see more patients with […]
Icatibant for ACE inhibitor induced angioedema Read More
Last week, while Iain was giving a keynote lecture in Austria, I was also heading for distant shores to speak about chest pain evaluation at a special conference set up
Getting your chest pain evaluation right: #UMECS16 Read More
CHEMSEX and public health issues for the emergency department and physician.
All you need to know about CHEMSEX but never dared to ask… St.Emlyn’s Read More
Emergency physicians often feel that taking a sexual history in EDs is something medical school and specialty training have not prepared them very well for. This comes as no surprise
Taking a sexual history in ED Read More
This blog post is based on a paper we’ve just had published in the Emergency Medicine Journal entitled: ‘The Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) decision rule: validation with a new
The MACS rule: a new user-friendly version Read More
Where would we be without warfarin? The good old rat poison has served us brilliantly for decades, allowing us to anticoagulate patients to treat and prevent venous thromboembolism, prevent stroke
Get the NOAC Knowhow: Novel Oral Anticoagulants Part 1 Read More
Have you ever heard this sort of conversation in your ED? Junior ED doc: Can I run my patient by you, please? Senior ED doc: Sure Junior: I have a 40
Is severe chest pain more likely to be a heart attack? Read More
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from the UK has just published new recommendations for the use of high sensitivity troponin to rule out NSTEMI in the
New NICE high sensitivity troponin guidance: 3 hours and done? Read More
