JC: Haloperidol for Headaches. St Emlyn’s
Lone acute severe headaches are a common and sometimes complex presentation to all Emergency Departments. There are obviously life threatening causes of a headache that we rule out with judicious …
Pain
JC: Virtual Reality for Distraction from Paediatric Procedural Pain
Ed – At the SMACC conference our good friend and simulation guru Jesse Spurr ​1​ talked about virtual reality as a future technique for education and for therapy. It’s an …
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JC: Should we premedicate for ketamine sedation? St Emlyn’s
Here in Virchester we believe that we were early pioneers of conscious sedation in the UK. It’s something we adopted as a routine procedure back in the 90s, in both …
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JC: Tamsulosin and Renal Colic. St Emlyn’s
Renal colic really hurts, believe me I know! It’s one of those conditions that we see in emergency medicine where it really does not matter who you are, if you …
JC: Intranasal Ketamine vs. Fentanyl for kids. St. Emlyn’s
Here in Virchester we place great emphasis on relieving suffering in our patients. Part of doing that involves reducing the pain many of our patients experience. This seems particulaly important …
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104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s
Firstly, the title of this post is not a typo. When I collated the reflective lessons from my series of Sydney HEMS blog posts I realised there were actually 104, …
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JC : Paracetamol, NSAID’s or both in MSK trauma. St.Emlyn’s
 Pain… patients complain about it… A LOT. It’s the commonest reason for attending emergency departments across the globe so we should be (and need to be) pretty good at treating it. …
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JC: Pain Scales in the Paediatric ED
I will confess a geeky interest in paediatric pain management (I’ve spoken and written about it before at St Emlyns), so when I spotted this paper published online ahead of …