Day two of the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference 2024 ranges from emerging infections and frailty to trauma imaging and trainee wellbeing. This report from Gateshead also includes reflections on careers in emergency medicine and the challenges of humanitarian work.
The first day of the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference 2024 in Gateshead explores the future of emergency medicine, workforce pressures and emerging drug toxicity. The report also covers the climate emergency and practical efforts to make emergency departments more environmentally sustainable.
The July 2024 podcast round-up covers MACS chest pain scores, AI-assisted ECG interpretation, non-fatal strangulation and prehospital partial REBOA. Paediatric topics include eating disorders, hybrid closed-loop insulin pumps and button battery ingestion, alongside discussion of a lidocaine patch feasibility study for rib fractures.
This blog post reviews a study comparing non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) and invasive blood pressure (IBP) monitoring in pre-hospital critical care.
Tom Roberts and Dan Horner discuss the SHED study of adults presenting with acute headache. The article and podcast examine CT timing, the Ottawa SAH rule and lumbar puncture, including why observational evidence and the distinction between aneurysmal and non-aneurysmal bleeding matter when considering changes to practice.
Can symptoms identify who needs endoscopy after a caustic ingestion? Greg Yates examines a retrospective study of corrosive exposures, focusing on how significant injury was defined, the treatment of pain in symptom classification and the missing follow-up that limits reassurance from its findings.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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