Opening video to #RCEM15.
Here it is. The video that we could not see due to a horrific AV failure (nightmares of #smaccUS came flooding back) This is Dan Horner’s work and it’s a […]
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Emergency Medicine
VTE masterclass with Dan Horner at #RCEM15
You don’t need me to tell you that VTE is a huge problem. 10 million cases worldwide, a cost to the NHS of £466,000,000 and half a million European deaths
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#RCEM15. St.Emlyn’s preview
There are just a few days to go until the first (yes the very first) Royal College of Emergency Medicine conference right here at the home of St.Emlyns in Virchester
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Communicating terrible news: Can we do it better?
It’s every health professional’s most dreaded task to have to communicate difficult news to desperate patients, friends and relatives; particularly when someone has died. Think about this clinical case
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Lactate = LactHATE
Like many others who attended SMACC earlier this year I returned home dazed and confused about the significance of lactate in the septic patient. So like any good (aspiring
JC The REVERT trial: Dip or doom for SVT in the Emergency Department?
SVT (supraventricular tachycardia) is something we see a lot of in Emergency Medicine. Any emergency physician will tell you exactly how satisfying it is to treat a patient with SVT. There
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Back Pain in the Emergency Department
This post is part of the St Emlyn’s induction series and accompanies the podcast below. Firstly, when seeing patients with back pain take a deep breath and try to leave
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Update on RCEM curriculum mapping
The permanent page for this post can be found by clicking here. If you are a trainee or trainer in the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) then you should
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