#FOAMed

The techniques of advocacy with enquiry12–14 in particular underpin the exploration of soft skills, primarilly as it explores the experience from the learners perspective. By observing and exploring interactions during the experience the facilitator can use this technique with different members of the team exploring how the interactions were experienced individually and then collectively.

"Patience and tranquillity of mind contribute more to cure our distempers as the whole of medicine" (Mozart)

There is a bit of a buzz on social media at the moment​1​ about an interesting paper in the NEJM​2​ on the prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in patients with syncope​3​. We're all familiar with the controversies about looking too hard for PE in patients and the difficulties in deciding whether PE is clinically important.

All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again1.

This month the emergency department point of care ultrasound in out-of-hospital and in-ED cardiac arrest trial from the REASON1 trial is published in the journal Resuscitation. This has been rumoured for some time in the #FOAMed world as patient outcome related evidence for the use of ultrasound in cardiac arrest is not yet definitive.

You might not have spotted that the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN)1 published an updated report on paediatric trauma last week. You can find the full document here 2.This document is important because it provides us with an overview of the sort of paediatric trauma patients we are seeing across England and Wales, what sort of injuries they have and what happens to them.