The St Emlyn’s team reflects on being shortlisted for Education Team of the Year at the 2017 BMJ Awards. The post celebrates HeartWize’s winning school CPR project, thanks supporters and shares the experience of bringing the team together.
An archived invitation to help shape the critical care education panel at dasSMACC in Berlin in June 2017. Simon Carley outlines the session’s purpose and asks what opportunities, challenges and questions mattered to the clinicians and educators attending.
Preparing a critically ill patient for transfer brings challenges that can be less obvious at the bedside. In this third Sydney HEMS reflection, Natalie May explores sedation, ventilation, physiological preparation and contingency planning through lessons from interhospital retrievals.
Emergency Department Management
Would your hospital’s major incident plan work with the staff and resources actually available? This 2017 conference companion explores usable action cards, familiar roles, scalable command structures and local training, with attention to regional networks and an all-hazards approach.
Can procalcitonin reliably guide antibiotic decisions in the emergency department? This 2017 review traces the biomarker’s evidence across adults, children and intensive care, explaining why different populations, study questions and uncertain effects on outcomes complicate apparently promising results.
Synthetic cannabinoids can produce unpredictable and severe presentations in the emergency department. This 2017 overview explains their pharmacology, varied effects and uncertain composition, then discusses the difficulties of recognition and management and the role of specialist poisons advice.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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