In the words of the packaging: ‘Smoking Kills’. Should we be offering smoking cessation advice in the ED?
Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): A Critical Appraisal Read More
Discover the highlights of Day 1 at the Premier conference on Paediatric Emergency Medicine.
Paediatric Emergency Medicine – Premier Conference – Day 1 Read More
This post is from Australia and was brought to us by Dr Ben McKenzie. The events that precede this blog are utterly tragic, but from such tragedy there is hope
Just a routine resuscitation. The AMAX4 algorithm for anaphylaxis/asthma. St Emlyn’s Read More
Back in 2016 we published a blog on chest drains and chest aspiration, in which we argued that the dogma of putting in huge drains for traumatic haemothoraces should be
JC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax? Read More
In the UK this weekend there are warnings out regarding Thunderstorm Asthma. This is a rare but well described phenomena when patients who are previously known to be grass pollen
Thunderstorm Asthma: St Emlyn’s Read More
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,
JC: Conservative management of pneumothoraces. Read More
The use of clinical probability adjusted d-dimer thresholds for exclusion of pulmonary embolism
JC: Pulmonary Embolism – The PEGeD study Read More
This blog outlines some of the key questions we should be asking when an aduilt patient with congenital heart disease attends the ED
Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the Emergency Department Read More
