JC: Pseudo PEA in the ED. St Emlyn's
I don’t know if this has ever happened to you but when I was still a registrar, often I’d be in the midst of a resuscitation or major trauma case someone much cleverer than me would suggest a novel treatment …
JC Are we doing too many CTPAs? St.Emlyn’s
Well! I go away for 1 week to Devon to spend time with the family and to visit the holiday haunts of Agatha Christie and what do you know? JC descends into another discussion about …
Oh, Sugar! Paediatric Hypoglycaemia
Anyone who has ever worked in or maybe even visited an Emergency Department knows that we LOVE acronyms. Students and trainees alike know that the answer to any “How would you manage this patient?” question …
JC: Diagnostic panacea? USS that paeds abscess?? St.Emlyn’s
Most emergency physicians love gadgets. And ultrasound machines are great gadgets. If you’re keeping up with the Emergency Medicine literature, you’d be forgiven for believing that ultrasound is the way to diagnose just about anything …
Balanced Sedation in the ED. St.Emlyn’s
Listen to the podcast then read on. So I said……….. …., because I was trying to be a bit cheeky. There is a serious point here though. I don’t know the exact motivation for asking …
Is this what we mean by critical care? Feedback at St.Emlyn’s
Over the years we’ve been building up a profile of our virtual hospital, St. Emlyn’s. Here, let’s explore the way we reflect on cases in Emergency Medicine, and take a look at what might go on at a ‘St. …
Emergency Medicine, a risky business Part 3. How often is it acceptable for me to be wrong?
Emergency medicine is a risky business. In this continuing series looking at how we as emergency physicians look at risk we are going to spend a bit of time looking at how we feel about …
St.Emlyn’s #teamSimGB takes on the simwars SMACC2013 challenge
If you are a critical care/EM physician and you love #FOAM then the must attend conference of 2013 is the Social Media and Critical Care conference in Sydney Australia March 11-13. The SMACC down under …
The POP, the Chief, his risk assessment and her thromboprophylaxis
So, we’ve already talked about this. But changing times call for changing posts. And we want to know what you think… A 30 year old comes in 10 days after being put in an equinus …
ALS: Airway, Breathing, Capnography???
A Confession I have a guilty secret. I love cardiac arrests. Yep, I said it. As a brand new doctor, there was something exciting about dashing off to a 2222 call, even if my main …
JC StO2 monitoring in the ED. St.Emlyn’s
Journal club was interesting this week. The marvellous AR brought a paper along from the EMJ looking at the use of non-invasive tissue oxygen monitoring in septic patients. Aha, interesting we thought, there is certainly …