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Anaesthetics

Intranasal Ketamine: Mum “Nose” Best at St Emlyn’s

By Natalie May21 November 2012

6 min read

Click the image above to go to the PubMed abstract.

Feeling Blue at St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley18 November 2012

9 min read

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40646519@N00/2479374506

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

Critical Care

Getting Chilly Quickly at St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley15 November 2012

7 min read

http://christmasstockimages.com/free/winter/slides/winter_frost.htm

I was having a chat with one of my Cardiac anaesthetist chums the other day about 'stuff' and in particular some of the rather interesting work appearing in the literature around the use of ECMO in the the ED. He has recently been trained in the use of ECMO and so he seemed like just the right person to talk through some of the concepts.

Journal Club Evidence-Based Medicine

Twitter Journal Club @JC_StE at St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley11 November 2012

3 min read

So what's it about?

Journal Club Acute Medicine

JC Are we doing too many CTPAs? St.Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley8 November 2012

7 min read

So, what have they looked at here? It's a bit confusing at first but I think they are trying to see if there is an association between the level of D-dimer and the probability of PE on CTPA.

Paediatrics