How can mass-casualty training reflect the resources and challenges of its setting? Dr Rashid Aqeel describes simulation training in Karachi, Pakistan, exploring locally adapted scenarios, multidisciplinary preparation and what emergency teams in different health systems can learn from one another.
Some clinical events stay with emergency physicians long after a shift ends. Laura Howard describes a qualitative interview study exploring those experiences, their effects on sleep and life outside work, and the questions they raise about preparation, support and recovery.
JC: How events in emergency medicine impact doctors psychological well-being. St Emlyn’s Read More
Natalie May concludes her reflections on the 2018 FemInEM Ideas Exchange with talks about burnout, parenthood and the systems surrounding clinical work. The report also explores research in Tanzania, health advocacy, equity and the challenge of misinformation about women’s health.
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What makes a clinical handover work when a critically ill patient arrives? Drawing on a 2018 Intensive Care Society presentation, this post explores preparation, team attention, structured communication and follow-up. It offers adaptable principles for sharing essential information while recognising that urgent treatment sometimes takes priority.
Handover. Process, practice and controversy. #ICSSOA2018. St Emlyn’s Read More
Natalie May continues her reflections from the 2018 FemInEM Ideas Exchange in New York. This instalment explores leadership, negotiation and gender equity, including listening to different perspectives, supporting effective teams and finding the courage to influence change within healthcare organisations.
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Resuscitation begins before the patient arrives. Simon Carley introduces the Zero Point Survey and its focus on the clinician, team and environment, explaining how shared preparation and mental models can be practised in simulation. He also reflects on role allocation and integrating the approach into everyday resuscitation training.
JC: The Zero Point Survey. Optimising resuscitation teams in the ED. St Emlyn’s Read More
Can short-term targets distract us from the purpose of healthcare? Craig Ferguson uses finite and infinite game theory to explore the tension between measurable performance and lasting quality, including how targets can distort priorities, consume resources and produce unintended consequences in emergency medicine.
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Heidi Edmundson describes bringing Forum Theatre into the emergency department to explore communication, power and staff wellbeing. By replaying difficult situations with audience members trying alternative responses, the project gave colleagues a way to examine everyday tensions together and consider how interactions might change.
Forum theatre with Heidi Edmundson. St Emlyn’s Read More
