Sickle Cell Disease – New Guidance
New guidance out on sickle disease from NICE in the BMJ I must admit to having a bit of an interest in sickle cell disease and the ED. There are […]
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Emergency Medicine
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Aortic Dissection – The time bomb of doom
The dilemmas and difficulties of diagnosing Aortic Dissection in the emergency department. Differential diagnosis. Early investigation and management.
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Paediatric brain injury – Bumps, Brains and Barf
The assessment and management of paediatric head injury in the emergency department. Clinical Guidlines. Use of CT in pediatric brain injury.
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JC: The end for potatoes on the ICU…?
Another Journal club, another fruity (or vegetable-y) discussion today. The recent large prospective RCT by the Scandinavian 6S trial group on HydroxyEthyl Starch vs Ringer’s acetate in severe sepsis was
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Superficial Venous Thrombosis: watch and wait or anticoagulate?
Check out our ICEM poster on this. So, I see this old chestnut is under discussion again. A couple of us from the EmergINg team brought a poster to ICEM on this
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Should POPs be mixed with Heparin?
We published an interesting BET in the EMJ earlier (open access version here) this year about the use of low molecular weight heparin for patients placed in below knee POPs
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Acute Coronary Syndrome – Deciding Who To Investigate
Which patients with chest pain should we be investigating for acute coronary syndrome?
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Deep Vein Thrombosis – New NICE guidance
Is Venous Thrombo Embolism the most controversial area of EM practice at the moment? I think it might be as there is rarely a meeting or conference where the subject
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