Have you ever heard this sort of conversation in your ED? Junior ED doc: Can I run my patient by you, please? Senior ED doc: Sure Junior: I have a 40 […]
Is severe chest pain more likely to be a heart attack? Read More
Podcast – An introduction to caring for the patient with chest pain in the Emergency Department
Podcast – Intro to EM – Chest Pain Read More
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from the UK has just published new recommendations for the use of high sensitivity troponin to rule out NSTEMI in the
New NICE high sensitivity troponin guidance: 3 hours and done? Read More
Chris Nickson (@precordialthump) is a genius in many ways. Not only does he organise arguably the best healthcare conference in the world right now, but he’s also a very
The Heart Under Stress – St. Emlyn’s at SMACC Gold Read More
Recently we published part one of our series on cardiac troponins. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you can find it here. In the second part, we’re going to
High sensitivity troponin Read More
Do you remember when it took three days to ‘rule in’ or ‘rule out’ an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? When I was a medical student doing my first clinical attachments,
Cardiac Troponin: The basics from St. Emlyn’s Read More
This blog post is based on the paper published in the EMJ this week – Body R et al. Can emergency physicians rule in or rule out acute coronary syndromes
How accurate is clinical judgement for acute coronary syndromes? Read More
Here we go with another Cardiology Case at St. Emlyn’s. If you haven’t already, check out the other cases in this series: Cardiology case 01 Cardiology case 02: ST depression, no
Cardiology Case 04: An unusual ECG Read More
