Lactate = LactHATE
Like many others who attended SMACC earlier this year I returned home dazed and confused about the significance of lactate in the septic patient. Â So like any good (aspiring […]
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Podcast – Intro to EM: The Patient with Syncope
A comprehensive blog post and podcast about the patient with syncope in the Emergency Department.
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Back Pain in the Emergency Department
This post is part of the St Emlyn’s induction series and accompanies the podcast below. Firstly, when seeing patients with back pain take a deep breath and try to leave
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Update on RCEM curriculum mapping
The permanent page for this post can be found by clicking here. If you are a trainee or trainer in the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) then you should
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JC: Don’t Write off the Respiratory Rate – Part Two
So, now we know what to do with an unexplained abnormal respiratory rate in a baby – but how do we know what constitutes an abnormal respiratory rate? That’s the
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JC: Don’t Write off the Respiratory Rate – Part One
Two really interesting PEM-relevant papers appeared online first in Archives of Disease in Childhood in July – and happy days, both are FOAM! What’s great about these papers is how
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Taking a sexual history in ED
Emergency physicians often feel that taking a sexual history in EDs is something medical school and specialty training have not prepared them very well for. This comes as no surprise
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The North West Emergency Medicine Regional Research Symposium 2015
On Thursday 23rd July we held our annual North West Emergency Medicine Regional Research Symposium. This is an opportunity to celebrate some of the fantastic Emergency Medicine research going on
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