Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is a spectrum of symptoms and signs that present due to actue coronary ischaemia: a blockage of a coronary vessel or vessels. This could be anything
Acute Coronary Syndrome (Induction) Read More
A 70 year old man presents to your Emergency Department (ED) with a three week history of cough and mild shortness of breath, but this is improving. Over the last
COVID-19 and The Heart. St Emlyn’s Read More
March has been an incredibly busy month on St Emlyn’s, and we had our highest number of blog views and podcast listens ever. There has been an awful lot to
Podcast – March 2020 Monthly Round Up Read More
When we saw in the last decade, I’d just finished my PhD looking to discover the ‘new troponin’. At the time, patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) were routinely
A Decade of Diagnostics in Emergency Care Read More
I hope you’ve had a very happy Christmas/holiday period, and that work hasn’t been too intense for you. As we close out 2019, we’re looking forward to a new decade
A decade in review for Emergency Care. St Emlyn's Read More
Suspected cardiac chest pain: everyone sees it, everyone has a different clinical pathway, and everyone has a different risk score for it. This week the Emergency Medicine Journal published our
Risk scores for cardiac chest pain: the first head-to-head comparison! Read More
This blog outlines some of the key questions we should be asking when an aduilt patient with congenital heart disease attends the ED
Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the Emergency Department Read More
This week I am in Jeddah at the Saudi Arabian Society of Emergency Medicine1. It has been a fabulous few days so far. The content is good, the presentations are
#SASEM2019: Top 10+1 papers Read More
I’ve been meaning to do a blog on this paper for some time now. Paul Young, who’s opinion I have a lot of time for, seemed clearly excited about its
History A 45 year old man is brought to hospital by paramedics after being found by passers by sat on the roadside. The paramedics can’t obtain a coherent history and
Case A17. Inferoposterior myocardial infarction. St Emlyn’s ECG Library Read More
