This month’s St Emlyn’s podcast wraps up Season 11 discusses new evidence on chest trauma management, intraosseous access safety, pediatric imaging updates, AI in medicine, toxic alcohol poisoning, and airway management.
Podcast – Monthly Round Up December 2024 – Chest trauma, IO access, AI and more Read More
The monthly update podcast from November 2024, including learning culture, chest drains in haemothorax, arterial lines in cardiac arrest and bad behaviour.
Back in 2016 we published a blog on chest drains and chest aspiration, in which we argued that the dogma of putting in huge drains for traumatic haemothoraces should be
JC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax? Read More
When I trained here in Virchester we had a fairly aggressive approach to the management of pneumothoraces. All trauma pneumothoraces got chest drains, a chest drain meant an open one,
JC: Conservative management of pneumothoraces. Read More
This is just a quickie to support some local teaching in Virchester on ‘chest drain’ insertion, or ‘intercostal drains’ if you prefer additional consonants or ‘chest tubes’ if you are
Chest drains & aspiration: Do it better with St.Emlyn’s 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
Podcast – An introduction to caring for the patient with shortness of breath in the Emergency Department
Podcast – Intro to EM: Shortness of Breath Read More
Here at St. Emlyn’s we have been managing patients with pneumothoraces as out patients for many years. The approach in the UK has been ‘guided’ by the BritishThoracic Society guidelines.
JC: Should we use Heimlich Valves for ambulatory pneumothorax management? St. Emlyn’s Read More
