Vaccines update January 2021: St Emlyn’s
Rick Body has once again put together a great COVID-19 podcast to update us on the latest vaccines roll out in the UK. Prof. Rick Body, Prof. Simon Carley, Prof. …
Rick Body has once again put together a great COVID-19 podcast to update us on the latest vaccines roll out in the UK. Prof. Rick Body, Prof. Simon Carley, Prof. …
Ed – We have previously covered the concept of moral injury on the blog and podcast, largely in respect to the experience of managing patients with traumatic injury. In 2020 …
We have been following the RECOVERY trial closely over the last few months. It’s the largest RCT of therapeutics for COVID-19 in the world and it’s already shown that hydroxychloroquine …
JC: Lopinavir/Ritonavir in the treatment of COVID-19 Read More »
As we near the end of 2020, it is worth taking a moment to reflect on what a year it has been. At the beginning of the year we were …
JC: Azithromycin in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 Read More »
Welcome to our audio round up of everything on the blog during November and the first half of December. It’s been a COVID heavy month which reflects some of the …
A defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the wide spectrum of clinical presentations, ranging from asymptomatic viremia to life-threatening illness.1 Factors such as advancing age and co-morbid status have …
The Emerging Evidence for a Genetic Susceptibility to Severe Covid-19. St Emlyn’s Read More »
A core skill in emergency medicine is in the identification and classification of risk categories for the patients we see. For many conditions we have derived, validated and refined scoring …
Risk stratification in the ED for COVID19 patients: The PRIEST study. St Emlyn’s Read More »
I am sure many of you saw the breaking news on the BBC the other week, about a new wonderdrug to strengthen our defences against the tidal wave that is …
Tocilizumaybe? Immune modulation in COVID-19 @StEmlyns Read More »
This month the BMJ has published a trial on the use of convalescent plasma in the treatment of admitted patients with COVID-19 (the PLACID trial). Convalescent plasma therapy basically takes …
I’m not sure whether you have noticed, but the first two episodes of the CODA Zero program are now live on their website. If you did not already know, the …