EMSSA Day 1 review. Co-created review with St.Emlyn’s.
So that’s the end of day 1 here at Sun City. This is EMS day and so we have a number of streams addressing the […]
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Mass Casualty Incidents: Lessons from AAST. St.Emlyn’s
Mass Casualty Incidents: What can we (re)learn? This year, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma held its Annual Meeting in Baltimore – a city I called
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Unforgettable: Don’t Forget the Bubbles 2017 (#DFTB17) with Kat Gridley & St.Emlyn’s
My name is Katherine Gridley and as a Brisbane local and emergency registrar with a paeds interest, I jumped at the chance to talk about one of the latest
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JC: Apnoeic Oxygenation (again)
We’ve debated Apnoeic Oxygenation on St.Emlyn’s in the past1. Physiologically it kind of makes sense. The idea that we can put ‘Os up the Nose’ (as someone cleverer than I
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The 2017 ACEM Winter Symposium with Katherine Gridley.
This year the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) winter symposium was held in the beautiful Barossa valley in South Australia. This 4 day conference is designed to bring emergency
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Are you PROcalcitonin? St.Emlyn’s goes bug-hunting.
At work the other day, someone mentioned that we could use procalcitonin to distinguish between viral and bacterial infections, particularly in the paediatric population. It was touted as the answer
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JC: Turn it Down to 11 – Benzos for Back Pain
The topic of lower back pain of undifferentiated origin is one that is close to my heart for at least two reasons. The first one is professional, as daily we
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Hypothermia in status epilepticus. St.Emlyn’s
It seems as though hypothermia is the therapy that never quite gets there. The Targeted Temperature Management1,2 trial showed no benefit post ROSC and the RINSE trial 3,4 showed no
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10+1 papers for the Northern Emergency Medicine conference. St.Emlyn’s
I had the honour to speak at the very first Northern Emergency Medicine conference back in 2014 (I think). I had a fantastic time and met so many enthusiastic and
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JC: Clots in Pots gets Top Spot. Thromboprophylaxis at St.Emlyn’s
Every so often, a paper comes along that contradicts your gut feeling and/or current practice and makes you really think hard. That happened to me this weekend. You may have
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