St Emlyn's • Emergency Medicine Blog #FOAMed

On a FAST track to nowhere at St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley23 June 2013

10 min read

This week a little attempt at #dogmalysis for ultrasound education in the UK. I want this to make you think about the links between what we teach and learn vs patient outcomes.

Journal Club Acute Medicine

JC: Should we use Heimlich Valves for ambulatory pneumothorax management? St. Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley15 June 2013

5 min read

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.

Journal Club Evidence-Based Medicine

JC: Time is brain…., calling #FOAMagitators. St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley14 June 2013

3 min read

Streamlining of prehospital stroke management: the golden hour.

Conference Reports Critical Care

Children are just little adults. SMACC2013. St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley10 June 2013

5 min read

One such dogma is that 'Children are not little adults'.

Communication Skills

Review: The Essence of Emergency Medicine

By Gareth Hardy7 June 2013

4 min read

It was a long day. After getting home from a late shift the night before, I was up at 4 to catch my 0530 train, and toddled off down to London.

Critical Care

APLS weight estimation – don’t do it (well almost never). St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley3 June 2013

9 min read

I'm an APLS instructor & course director and have contributed various bits and bobs over the years and it's a great course. I'd go further and say that it's a really great course to get a grounding in Paeds resus that has made a real impact to paediatric care around the world.