Lactate = LactHATE
Like many others who attended SMACC earlier this year I returned home dazed and confused about the significance of lactate in the septic patient. Â So like any good (aspiring […]
JC The REVERT trial: Dip or doom for SVT in the Emergency Department?
SVT (supraventricular tachycardia)Â is something we see a lot of in Emergency Medicine. Â Any emergency physician will tell you exactly how satisfying it is to treat a patient with SVT. Â There
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JC: Do all VTE patients need a CT for cancer?
Virchester has a long history of research in the ambulatory management of venous thromboembolism. Several MDs and PhDs have been completed here looking at both therapeutic and diagnostic strategies in
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Podcast – Intro to EM: The Patient with Syncope
A comprehensive blog post and podcast about the patient with syncope in the Emergency Department.
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Back Pain in the Emergency Department
This post is part of the St Emlyn’s induction series and accompanies the podcast below. Firstly, when seeing patients with back pain take a deep breath and try to leave
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Update on RCEM curriculum mapping
The permanent page for this post can be found by clicking here. If you are a trainee or trainer in the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) then you should
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JC: Don’t Write off the Respiratory Rate – Part Two
So, now we know what to do with an unexplained abnormal respiratory rate in a baby – but how do we know what constitutes an abnormal respiratory rate? That’s the
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JC: Don’t Write off the Respiratory Rate – Part One
Two really interesting PEM-relevant papers appeared online first in Archives of Disease in Childhood in July – and happy days, both are FOAM! What’s great about these papers is how
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