The MACS rule: a new user-friendly version
This blog post is based on a paper we’ve just had published in the Emergency Medicine Journal entitled: ‘The Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) decision rule: validation with a new …
Emergency Medicine
PODCAST update with Mark Wilson on the GoodSAM app at the London Trauma Conference
Earlier this year we published a blog on the GoodSAM app, a device developed by Mark Wilson and colleagues in London that has a real potential to save …
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You are not a SHOEMAKER. St.Emlyn’s
Simon recently claimed his new favourite word is pleiotropic, and whilst I don’t want to get into a vocab competition, I offer my own new favourite word: ultracrepidarianism. This …
Get the NOAC Knowhow: Novel Oral Anticoagulants Part 1
Where would we be without warfarin? The good old rat poison has served us brilliantly for decades, allowing us to anticoagulate patients to treat and prevent venous thromboembolism, prevent stroke …
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JC: What’s the ‘best’ test for a broken chest? St.Emlyn’s
A 45 year old man comes off his motorbike on a country road. He is flagged up as major trauma and gets the full works, including WBCT. This reveals nothing …
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Problems in Early Pregnancy – Induction
The number of patients seen in each ED with problems relating to early pregnancy in the UK is very variable – some hospitals have rapid referral pathways for patients who …
SIMWARS: Med-U-Tainment at SMACCGold with St.Emlyn’s
In 2014, as in 2013, the SMACC conference arguably ended where it all began, in the roots of resuscitation, with clinical teams coming together to resuscitate and compete against the …
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Impact Brain Apnoea with Gareth Davies from London HEMS. St.Emlyn’s
I was recently discussing the management of traumatic cardiac arrest with one of my junior colleagues and was surprised to hear that they had not heard of impact brain apnoea …
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