Iain Beardsell and Liz Crowe discuss fear and anxiety at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their March 2020 podcast and notes explore taking breaks from pandemic news, looking after everyday needs, respecting different emotional responses and supporting colleagues through uncertainty.
Natalie May reflects on emotions in emergency medicine, drawing on her experience of postnatal anxiety and depression. She explores why clinicians bottle up feelings and introduces a self-validation approach: acknowledging, allowing and understanding emotions without judging ourselves for having them.
In this March 2020 podcast, Roberto Cosentini shares experiences from Bergamo during Italy's first COVID-19 surge. The accompanying notes highlight preparation, staff training, patient flow and psychological support, capturing lessons being shared while other emergency departments were still preparing for their first wave.
Conference ReportsCritical Care
Day two of the 2019 Intensive Care Society State of the Art meeting explores fluids, blood-pressure targets and vasoactive treatment, alongside sustainability and staff wellbeing. Later sessions consider trauma systems, bleeding control, chest injury and the needs of older patients with major trauma.
An introduction to RCEM's 2019 Wellness Compendium and related resources for supporting emergency medicine staff. The article explains how its brief topic guides complement St Emlyn's wellbeing book, with links to both publications and the EM-POWER material on sustaining an experienced workforce.
Rusty reflects on why traumatic experiences affected him so profoundly and how therapy helped him make sense of PTSD. This personal account explores moral injury, disrupted beliefs about the world and the continuing process of understanding his own recovery.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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