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 …
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 …
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 …
JC: Virtual Reality for Distraction from Paediatric Procedural Pain Read More »
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 …
JC: Should we premedicate for ketamine sedation? St Emlyn’s Read More »
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 …
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 …
JC: Intranasal Ketamine vs. Fentanyl for kids. St. Emlyn’s Read More »
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, …
104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s Read More »
 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. …
JC : Paracetamol, NSAID’s or both in MSK trauma. St.Emlyn’s Read More »
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 …