How to use this Directory You’ve just seen a patient in your Emergency Department with an acute orthopaedic injury. Their treatment is complete and you are about to discharge them […]
Fracture Clinic Booking Directory Read More
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
The FORCE study: St Emlyn’s Read More
Well, it’s the final day in Bournemouth for the attendees of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Spring CPD Conference of 2022. I’m still here up in the north, and
RCEM CPD Conference 2022 Day 3 Read More
I gave this talk at the SASEM (Saudi Arabian Society for Emergency Medicine) conference, 2022. In this talk, I discuss recent practice-changing evidence relating to emergency airway management. I cover endotracheal intubation in out of hospital cardiac arrest (including the AIRWAYS-2 trial), video vs. direct laryngoscopy tips to optimise your view on laryngoscopy and maximise first pass success, and I cover the use of surgical cricothyroidotomy by London Ambulance Service.
SASEM: Cutting Edge Evidence-based Airway Management Read More
Introduction What follows is a step-by-step guide to clinical procedures based on the guidelines used at St Emlyn’s Hospitals. It is really important to note the guidelines change with time,
Chapter 9 – Procedure CPSA Stations Read More
Introduction These are typically focused on a candidates leadership of a scenario, but also there is often a skill or some sort of conflict to deal with, for example cardiac
Chapter 8 – Resuscitation CPSA Stations Read More
Contents General tips Elbow Hip Ensure you cover Shoulder Knee Joint examinations Neck Ankle and foot Hand and wrist Back GALS General Tips Like all previous stations use your standard
Chapter 7 – Musculoskeletal CPSA Stations Read More
Approach to the patient with psychological disturbance It is important to ensure you approach these stations with your standard opening and background questions, followed by time focusing on your psychiatric
Chapter 5 – Psychiatry, substance misuse and safeguarding CPSA stations Read More
This is the transcript for an invited talk at the recent Difficult Airway Society (DAS) 2021 virtual conference. It was lovely to be invited and great of the organisers to
Learning from airway management in the ED: UK Perspective Read More
‘Red Standby 4 mins’ tannoys the nurse in charge. ‘It’s a 70yr old male BP 68/49, pulse 120, GCS 14/15, O2 sats 98% on 15L NRB, temperature 37.5°C’ you are
Big Shock…..Do we ❤ POCUS? Read More
