Does cardiac activity on ultrasound predict survival after cardiac arrest, and does scanning itself improve outcomes? This 2016 appraisal of REASON examines those different questions, the study’s potential biases and why absent activity should not be treated as a definitive prognosis.
What did the 2016 TARN report reveal about serious childhood injuries in England and Wales? Reviewing data from 2013–2014, this post explores injury patterns, safeguarding concerns and why every emergency department needs to prepare for children arriving outside established trauma pathways.
Emergency Department Management
Recognising possible child abuse is only the start of safeguarding in the emergency department. This 2016 overview explores concerning presentations, listening to children, seeking senior help, sharing information and approaching parents with humility while keeping the child’s safety central.
How do our minds steer us towards diagnostic mistakes and unfair judgments? This introduction to cognitive bias uses emergency medicine examples to explore anchoring, availability, oversimplification and assumptions about others, while emphasising that recognising bias in ourselves takes practice.
An archived 2016 call for patients, the public and professionals to help prioritise emergency medicine research. The post describes the RCEM–James Lind Alliance process as it moved from a shortlist of 60 questions towards selecting ten research priorities.
This 2016 companion to the upper gastrointestinal bleeding podcast covers recognition, resuscitation, transfusion, risk assessment and referral for endoscopy. It also discusses variceal bleeding and rescue measures, reflecting the guidance and unresolved research questions available at the time.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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