JC: Delta signs for shock trauma
I recently had a bit of fun at the Telford trauma conference talking about the top 10 papers of 2012 and in passing mentioned the #dogmalysis of ATLS shock categories […]
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Diagnostic Skills
Emergency Medicine, a risky business Part 5. Does a correct diagnosis mean that the therapy will work?
Emergency Medicine: A risky business part 5. Does a correct diagnosis mean that the therapy will work? In the previous post in this series around diagnostics we have looked at
Are you sure that’s allergic?? Angioedema in Scarbrough
A guest blog from an old friend and colleague from the the other side of the Pennines. Andy Volans is consultant in Emergency Medicine in the seaside town of Scarborough,
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Emergency Medicine: A risky business Part 4
Welcome back to the 4th part of the series looking at understanding risk and diagnosis in Emergency Medicine. In part 3 we looked at how tests with apparently high sensitivities
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JC: Diagnostic panacea? USS that paeds abscess?
Most emergency physicians love gadgets. Â And ultrasound machines are great gadgets. If you’re keeping up with the Emergency Medicine literature, you’d be forgiven for believing that ultrasound is the way
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Emergency Medicine, a risky business Part 3. How often is it acceptable for me to be wrong?
Emergency medicine is a risky business. In this continuing series looking at how we as emergency physicians look at risk we are going to spend a bit of time looking
Cardiology Case 02: ST depression, no rush? St.Emlyn’s
Do patients with ST depression (NSTEM) need to go to the Cath Lab urgently?
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