New Year Resolutions for St Emlyn’s
I have mixed feelings about January. It can be a tough time: the middle of winter, the ED is always super busy, and as the Christmas lights come down, we …
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Designer medicine for suspected DVT: the 4D study. St Emlyn’s
Do you want to halve your ultrasound referral rate for suspected Deep Vein Thrombosis? You do? How marvellous. Reducing referral rates from ED for a specialist test like vascular sonography …
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A decade in review for Emergency Care. St Emlyn's
I hope you’ve had a very happy Christmas/holiday period, and that work hasn’t been too intense for you. As we close out 2019, we’re looking forward to a new decade …
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A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Four
This post is the final post of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th …
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A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Three
This post is the third of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and …
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So Unsexy – Why We Shouldn’t Use The Word Sexy in Clinical Medicine #FIX18
The following post is a transcript of my talk at #FIX18 in New York. You can listen to the podcast of the talk here https://feminem.org/podcast/so-unsexy/ You can watch a video …
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Troponin and biotin: a lethal combination?
Imagine you’re treating a patient who presented with typical cardiac chest pain. The initial ECG showed subtle lateral ST depression that seemed to resolve on subsequent ECGs. You’re very concerned …
Pointing the Finger – Paronychia in the Emergency Department
It’s odd how we seem to find ourselves with very niche interest areas in Emergency Medicine. Paronychia is one of mine, for a variety of reasons – probably firstly because …
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50 shades of black and white: the folly of dichotomy
In this quick post I’m hoping to get you thinking and asking questions about how we measure things in medicine. And I hope that, like me, it might change how …
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104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s
Firstly, the title of this post is not a typo. When I collated the reflective lessons from my series of Sydney HEMS blog posts I realised there were actually 104, …
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