It’s that time of year again, when we proclaim peace and goodwill to all, light up our homes with crazy Christmas lights, plaster the walls with Christmas cards, drink mulled […]
Christmas 2012 style: Away in a Resus Trolley, No Crib for a Bed Read More
We already know that patients taking warfarin are at very high risk of intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) after head injury, and that delayed bleeds aren’t so uncommon either. Â In fact, we’ve
JC: Clopidogrel + head injury = CT? Read More
As 2012 draws to a close I have reflected with the St.Emlyn’s team on a year that has transformed our view of social media, medical education, critical care and emergency
The #FOAMtastic 2012 top ten from St.Emlyn’s Read More
So, JC time again. Today, someone chose this paper from CCM regarding antibiotic monotherapy compared against an empirical combination strategy for treatment of severe sepsis. So hot off the press
JC: Blunderbuss antibiotics in sepsis?? Read More
A new study in the BMJ this week suggests benefit from use of the new oral anticoagulants. This is of significance to those of us in UK emergency medicine involved in
The new oral anticoagulants – the good news – or is it? Read More
Interesting article in the BMJ this week about the crisis in recruitment and staffing in UK emergency departments. You can read the text here. Written by an independent journalist it
A career in Emergency Medicine part 2 (b) Read More
It seems like everyone is talking about the SMACC conference in Sydney next year, so it’s time that St.Emlyn’s joined the party. Next March (11-13th) SMACC represents a coming together
Last Friday (30th November) we looked at the paper below in both the physical and virtual journal clubs of St Emlyn’s: It doesn’t take a great leap of imagination
JC: Trends in CT/MRI for Atraumatic Headache in the US Read More
