Rusty Carroll reflects on moving into a leadership role as an advanced clinical practitioner. The post explores prioritisation, breaking work into manageable tasks, building trust, delegation and humility, with lessons intended for colleagues across professional backgrounds.
Recordings and commentary from SASEM 2022 on evidence for emergency airway management, including cardiac arrest, video laryngoscopy and surgical airways. The post also includes talks on research from 2021 and troponin-based assessment of possible myocardial infarction.
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Simon Carley's SASEM 2022 talk challenges familiar assumptions in resuscitation. The accompanying post explores airway management, chest drainage, calcium, transfusion and team behaviour, asking whether procedures are driven by patient need or clinicians' habits and preferences.
A 2022 review of Essex and Herts Air Ambulance's six-year experience with resuscitative thoracotomy. It considers outcomes after blunt and penetrating trauma, patient selection, timing and the training, governance and transport arrangements needed to support the procedure.
How should patients and clinicians help decide what emergency medicine researches next? This February 2022 post introduces a renewed James Lind Alliance priority-setting exercise, reflecting on earlier funded questions and explaining how ideas were gathered for the next round.
What happens when an ECG is requested or handed over for a signature 'just in case'? Iain Beardsell examines targeted testing, clinical context, interruptions and respectful teamwork, questioning routine habits without arguing that patients should stop having ECGs.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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