#FOAMed

It's been a little quiet of late here in the lofty towers of St Emlyn's Virtual Hospital, not because the patients have stopped coming (trust me, they haven't) but because many of the clinicians have spent their non-working hours squirreled away desperately designing talks for SMACC.

Podcast - An introduction to caring for the patient with asthma in the Emergency Department

I was recently at the Trauma Care UK conference in Telford. As ever, it's a great bunch of people working hard to improve trauma management in the UK.

STEMI is one of the true medical emergencies. We all know that the sooner our patient gets revascularisation, the better they do.

I was recently fortunate enough to speak at the the Emergency Medicine Educators Conference in Coventry on a subject that continues to interest me, that of gestalt, judgement and clinical decision making. As I get older I increasingly realise that simply acquiring more knowledge and skills is not enough.

When I was a medical student a friend of mine completed a special study module in ENT which involved a case-based, evidence-based essay on a clinical topic of his choice. He chose acute otitis media.