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Iain and Simon review the St Emlyn's blog and podcast from July and August 2023. Topics include trauma, burnout, prehospital care, training for high-acuity, low-occurrence procedures and paediatric ultrasound.

In a recorded CODA talk, Liz Crowe challenges how healthcare uses the term burnout. The accompanying commentary explores whether that label can obscure different workplace stressors, and considers meaning, teams and the need to understand what would actually improve working lives.

Simon and Iain bring together the St Emlyn's blog and podcast from November and December 2022 in a combined monthly round-up, revisiting the site's end-of-year content.

The St Emlyn's team share their personal and professional resolutions for 2023, from protecting family time to making space for learning and new projects. The post also links to Liz Crowe and Jesse Spur's podcast on setting and keeping resolutions.

How do we protect the parts of emergency medicine that make a career sustainable when services are under constant pressure? This reflection explores teaching, research and professional development, and the role of leaders in preserving what gives colleagues energy and satisfaction.

The St Emlyn's team look back on 2021: clinical work, pandemic research, teaching and life beyond medicine. Personal reflections sit alongside favourite books, music and podcasts, with thoughts on connection, learning and the year ahead.

Writing in December 2021, Liz Crowe reflects on what the loss of physical touch during COVID-19 meant for patients, staff and families. She explores touch, wellbeing and ways to preserve compassion and connection when infection precautions limit contact.

Can cardiac output help explain patient flow? This article uses preload, contractility and afterload as a metaphor for arrivals, staff and resources, and exit block, showing why changes to one part of urgent care must account for the whole system.

What should a departmental wellbeing plan prioritise? Iain Beardsell adapts a hierarchy of needs to emergency care, starting with food, water and basic facilities, then considering safety, belonging and meaningful appreciation before the optional extras of wellbeing initiatives.

A critical tour of trauma research from 2019–20, covering tranexamic acid in head injury, plasma and whole blood, hypocalcaemia and prehospital care. Simon Carley weighs trial findings against the limits of observational evidence, with an additional look at the Zero Point Survey.