Intranasal ketorolac in renal colic
Is intranasal ketorolac an option for analgesia in renal colic. A review of a paper from the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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Pain Management
Is nebulised ketamine an option in the Emergency Department?
Journal club review of an RCT on the use of nebulised ketamine use in the emergency department.
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Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for rib fractures in the Emergency Department
Review of an RCT of serratus anterior plane blocks in the emergency department for chest/rib injury. Is this now a standard of care?
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JC: Haloperidol for Headaches. St Emlyn’s
Lone acute severe headaches are a common and sometimes complex presentation to all Emergency Departments. There are obviously life threatening causes of a headache that we rule out with judicious
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JC: Virtual Reality for Distraction from Paediatric Procedural Pain
Ed – At the SMACC conference our good friend and simulation guru Jesse Spurr ​1​ talked about virtual reality as a future technique for education and for therapy. It’s an
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JC: Should we premedicate for ketamine sedation? St Emlyn’s
Here in Virchester we believe that we were early pioneers of conscious sedation in the UK. It’s something we adopted as a routine procedure back in the 90s, in both
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JC: Tamsulosin and Renal Colic. St Emlyn’s
Renal colic really hurts, believe me I know! It’s one of those conditions that we see in emergency medicine where it really does not matter who you are, if you
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JC: Intranasal Ketamine vs. Fentanyl for kids. St. Emlyn’s
Here in Virchester we place great emphasis on relieving suffering in our patients. Part of doing that involves reducing the pain many of our patients experience. This seems particulaly important
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