Chris Gray and the team report from day two of the 2023 RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Glasgow. Sessions cover the future of emergency medicine, smoking cessation, carbon monoxide poisoning, trauma triage, prehospital troponin testing and the REBOA-UK trial.
Highlights from the first day of the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Glasgow in 2023. The report covers emergency medicine research, including rib fracture analgesia and acute aortic syndrome, alongside staff wellbeing, peer support and paediatric research updates.
Journal ClubEmergency Department Management
Does an emergency physician's age relate to patient outcomes? This appraisal examines a retrospective study of older US patients, its association between physician age and seven-day mortality, and the uncertainty about what might explain that association.
Journal ClubEvidence-Based Medicine
Top 10 papers from 2022-2023 for the SASEM 2023 conference in Jeddah.
Should patients with restored circulation after cardiac arrest bypass their nearest hospital for a specialist centre? This appraisal of the ARREST trial examines patients without ST elevation, the lack of a survival benefit and the limits of applying London's results elsewhere.
Part two of this introduction to paediatric point-of-care ultrasound examines trauma, shock, vascular access and cardiac assessment. It also considers nerve blocks and foreign bodies, while highlighting the limited evidence for some uses and the limitations of FAST as a rule-out test.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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