Podcast – Top papers 2023/24 – Part 2
Part 2 of our podcast on top papers from 2023/24 with @EMManchester and @docb
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Are long waits in A&E lethal for elderly patients?
Greg Yates reviews for Journal Club a review of a JAMA paper on elderly deaths associated with long overnight waits on an ED trolley.
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Podcast – January 2024 Monthly Round Up – New Year resolutions, incubating poisoned patients and wellbeing the Emergency Department
Our regular podcast round up with @docib and @emmanchester of the best of the blog from January 2024. This month we focus on habits, the management of the comatose overdose patient and retention/recruitment issues in UK emergency medicine. #foamed @stemlyns
Semi Structured Interviews (CAN9)
Semi-structured interviews are a great way to get the really rich data we need to understand something in greater depth. They allow us to ask ‘why?’ as well as just ‘what?’, ‘who?’ and ‘when?’.
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JC: Head up, mechanical and impedance device assisted CPR – does it make a difference? St Emlyn’s
Research in cardiac arrest management has improved a lot in recent years. We are now seeing large randomised controlled trials looking at specific therapies in the management of these critically
The FORCE study: St Emlyn’s
As someone who works across both PEM and adult EM it’s interesting to reflect on how the workload varies. These days my adult work is heavily skewed to complex majors
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Differential prescribing of TXA by gender. St Emlyn’s
Tranexamic acid in trauma is a well-established standard of care in most mature trauma systems. The two major trials of TXA, CRASH 2 and 3 suggest a small but important
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JC: AP or AL position for cardioversion? St Emlyn’s
Defibrillation is a core skill in emergency medicine. Traditionally we are taught that an anterior-lateral (AL) placement of pads is preferable, although an anterior-posterior (AP) position can be used if
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JC: Emergency Department Delays and Mortality
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes This paper is recently off the press and has already sparked both interest and debate here at Virchester and in the wider Emergency Medicine community.
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Podcast – January 2022 Monthly Round Up
Iain and Simon bring you our regular monthly round up of the best of the blog on the podcast. This month we have lots of critical appraisal, some ECG thrusting
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