JC: One Too Many?
That your “drunk” patient with presumed alcohol intoxication is not simply drunk but in fact has a different, potentially life-threatening cause for their reduced conscious level is a lesson best […]
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Major incident planning at the 14th ACCS meeting. St.Emlyn’s
This week I am talking in Manchester at the 14th Annual Critical Care Symposium. This is an amazing meeting organised by the legendary Dr Chithambaram Veerappan, a critical care doc
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Where’s the love in critical care? Liz Crowe at #SMACCDUB
We are into the second month of a new year. Many of us in critical care may have made a resolve to ‘take better care of ourselves this year’.
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Critically Ill in PED – the Patient Perspective at #smaccMINI #smaccDUB
One of my favourite sections of the #smaccMINI workshop at #smaccDUB last year was when my Paediatric ED colleague Roisin McNamara from Dublin and I got the chance to speak
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Hypothermia in status epilepticus. St.Emlyn’s
It seems as though hypothermia is the therapy that never quite gets there. The Targeted Temperature Management1,2 trial showed no benefit post ROSC and the RINSE trial 3,4 showed no
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Difficult conversations with children in critical care
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again1. This blog tackles a really challenging topic in our theme around communication and wellbeing2–4. How do
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JC: Helmets or masks for NIV. St.Emlyn’s
We use a lot of NIV in Virchester. It’s a great technique that can be started in the emergency department as a supportive therapy or as a bridge to intubation
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SMACCDUB – A Trainee’s Perspective. St.Emlyn’s
Having recently returned to the real world after attending SMACCDUB in Dublin, we thought we should try to articulate some of the things we learnt. Rich: Having only lost
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