“Just In Case” in the ED – The ECG Thrust
There are many things that we do in Emergency Departments ‘just in case’. In this series we’ll be looking at some of these to see if we really do need […]
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Emergency Medicine
JC: Etomidate vs. Ketamine for emergency intubation. St Emlyn’s
Just a quick review this week as this is a paper published back in December that has been superbly reviewed already over on the SGEM. However, it’s an interesting topic
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What is the Bezold-Jarisch Reflex and why do I care?! St Emlyn’s
Bradycardia in the trauma patient can be a perilous sign. One might observe a typical course of events in which a bleeding trauma patient progresses through the compensatory mechanisms in
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JC: Should we use calcium in out of hospital cardiac arrest? St Emlyn’s
A trial published in JAMA asks exactly this question, the full text can be found here. The abstract is below, but as we always say, please read the full paper
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Thinking pragmatically about capacity
Editor: This is a guest post by Simon Horne. It is likely one of the last posts from Virchester before the festive season properly commences. Take care and stay safe.
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CODA: Is Emergency Medicine a failed paradigm? Revisited with St Emlyn’s
This week the CODA team have re-released the video and audio from a talk I did with Scott Weingart at SMACC in Dublin. We were tasked with answering the question
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Podcast – October 2021 Monthly Round Up
Our regular round up of the October 2021 content from the blog and podcast at St Emlyn’s with Iain and Simon.
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JC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax?
Back in 2016 we published a blog on chest drains and chest aspiration, in which we argued that the dogma of putting in huge drains for traumatic haemothoraces should be
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