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4/10/16 (today) Speakers notified

That people in a position of trust could intentionally injure, abuse or neglect children is almost unthinkable but it is a reality in the day-to-day practice of the Emergency Department1. Unfortunately, not only is it unpleasant to be confronted by the ideas and imagery that child abuse and neglect conjures up, it sometimes feels complicated and labour intensive to do something about it.

Ed - here at St.Emlyn's is a we want you to be a the best clinician you can be and that's why we discuss a range of subjects around EM, evidence, tacit knowedlge and meta-cognition.We're proud of what we do, but we're also keen to celebrate what we do and to share our love of what we do.

Earlier this week, Simon and Iain released a podcast on the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Welcome to the blog post version, for all your textual needs.

This week we look at the RINSE trial1, a trial examining the prehospital use of hypothermia in post cardiac arrest patients.

This month I was honoured that a study I wrote with some terrific colleagues from Europe, Australia and the US has been published as the 'Editor's Choice' in Academic Emergency Medicine. This was a secondary analysis from a large, multi-centre, international study I was lucky to be involved with: the TRAPID-AMI study.