A short report and podcast from the opening day of SMACC Chicago 2015. The St Emlyn’s team reflects on the plenary sessions and the challenge of choosing between parallel talks, with links to its workshop round-up and the Birmingham team’s coverage.
The St Emlyn’s team opens its coverage of SMACC Chicago 2015 with a podcast about the pre-conference workshops. This brief introduction marks the start of the team’s reports from the meeting, sharing its workshop reflections before the main conference programme began.
Why is diagnosis more than a yes-or-no answer? Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley use chest pain to explore how tests move clinical probability, linking sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios to decisions about further investigation and treatment in the second part of their diagnostic reasoning series.
A 2015 clinical review of torticollis, from a painful neck on waking to presentations associated with injury, medication, infection or neurological disease. It explores assessment across adults and children, highlighting why persistent symptoms, associated illness and follow-up matter when an apparently minor complaint may need another explanation.
A look behind the scenes after St Emlyn’s returned from an outage in June 2015. The team explains how its virtual hospital depends on an international network of people and technical support, and thanks Mike for helping build the site and bring it back online.
Does therapeutic hypothermia improve outcomes after cardiac arrest in children? This 2015 journal club examines a trial comparing cooling with active temperature control after out-of-hospital arrest, exploring neurological outcomes, confidence intervals, study limitations and why a non-significant result does not establish that two treatments are equivalent.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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