Hopefully you’ve held the 12th May in anticipation of the 2nd #stemylnsLIVE conference. We are back in Manchester in the stunning Compass room at the Lowry centre to learn, share and inspire each other to be better clinicians. We have …
The latest round up of the blog from Ian and Simon. Click on the links below to take you to each of the individual posts.
When I trained here in Virchester we had a fairly aggressive approach to the management of pneumothoraces. All trauma pneumothoraces got chest drains, a chest drain meant an open one, the size was as big as possible and the analgesia …
On Monday, the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes published interim guidelines on the management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in our younger patients (under the age of 18). NICE are planning to fully review and publish on this likely …
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 …
How would you estimate your personal NNT as an Emergency Physician?
How to approach the VIVA component of the FCEM exam
Smart phones and their associated stand-alone software applications, or apps, have become ubiquitous within the field of Medicine and perhaps, nowhere more so than the forward-thinking, technology embracing, occasionally geeky world of Emergency Medicine. A …
A few months back there was a short twitter conversation between (if I remember rightly) @adamchesters, myself and @karimbrohi about the use tranexamic acid for patients in the prehospital setting. At that time the picture …
I can’t believe how time flies. It’s over a month since Cardiology Case 01 and it’s gone by in the blinking of an eye. This month’s case is inspired by a discussion we had at …
What’s my view? Well how am I supposed to know? Write a review Well how objective can I be? I like to wait to see how things turn out If you apply some pressure Mark …
Is this FOAM heresy I ask myself…, someone in the social media world suggesting that we should use LESS Special K. I’ve been reflecting recently on my use of ketamine in the emergency department. …
“Why are you doing an Arterial Blood Gas on that patient?” I thought it was a decent enough question to put to one of our senior EM trainees in the resus room at StE’s. I, …
It’s a bit of a standing joke here at St Emlyn’s that I resolutely live in the Yorkshire countryside, aiming for a self-sufficient existence, yet practice what is very much urban EM. As it is …
