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What can an emergency department learn from a helicopter retrieval team? Following a 2013 visit to Sydney HEMS, Simon Carley reflects on multidisciplinary briefings, rehearsal, active listening at handover and shared leadership across challenging pre-hospital environments.

What does it mean for parents to be present during their child's resuscitation? Natalie May explores parental and staff perspectives, communication during cardiac arrest and the importance of supporting both families and the clinical team after a difficult case.

What can Sunday league football teach us about leading a resuscitation team? Rick Body draws parallels between changing team line-ups, assigning roles, encouraging communication and adapting under pressure, with reflection and debriefing helping the team prepare for next time.

Not all angioedema is driven by allergy. In this 2012 teaching case, Andy Volans explores recurrent swelling, bradykinin-mediated disease and airway risk, alongside the diagnostic clues and treatment options discussed at the time.

What can the capnography trace tell a resuscitation team beyond airway position? This 2012 reflection explores its use in assessing compressions, recognising possible return of circulation and informing difficult decisions, while emphasising the limitations of interpreting end-tidal carbon dioxide in isolation.

Turning an interesting question into a clinical topic review takes more than writing up the evidence. This 2012 FCEM preparation guide discusses planning, feedback and revision, explaining why early conversations with colleagues can prevent a promising project reaching submission before its weaknesses are recognised.

How do you act on an ECG suggesting STEMI when the rest of the presentation does not fit? This hypothetical cardiology case from 2012 combines altered consciousness, abdominal findings and no chest pain to explore competing diagnoses, bleeding risk and the urgency of reperfusion.

Who with chest pain needs investigation for acute coronary syndrome? Rick Body's 2012 discussion examines what symptoms and signs can—and cannot—tell us, challenges reliance on labels such as 'atypical', and explores the tension between avoiding missed diagnoses and reducing unnecessary admissions.

Why can a correct answer still lose marks in a critical-appraisal exam? In this 2012 guide to the former FCEM format, Simon Carley discusses reading the question, practising with papers, explaining statistics clearly and constructing an abstract whose objectives, results and conclusions fit together.