Starting a job that involves seeing children can feel daunting. This 2013 collection introduces paediatric emergency medicine resources on examining children, recognising serious illness, assessing sick babies and approaching resuscitation, with links to short talks, podcasts and further learning.
Paediatric EM: Seeing Kids is Child’s Play at St Emlyn’s Read More
A response to the GMC’s 2013 report on emergency medicine training in the UK. Simon Carley explores the links between supervision, understaffing, service pressure and recruitment, arguing that the sustainability of emergency care and the quality of education cannot be separated.
The ED is medical education’s front line. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Do we judge evidence for a new device differently from evidence for a new drug? Following a 2013 debate about video laryngoscopy, this reflection examines enthusiasm, prior beliefs and patient outcomes, arguing for consistent standards when assessing clinical technologies.
JC: If the Video Laryngoscope was stroke thrombolysis……. St.Emlyn’s Read More
A 2013 journal club examines a randomised trial comparing GlideScope video laryngoscopy with direct laryngoscopy in trauma patients. It considers survival, uncertainty around a small head-injury subgroup and whether results from a specialist trauma centre apply across emergency medicine.
JC: Video Layngoscopy – Did Video kill the Laryngoscope star? Read More
Alan Grayson describes volunteering with Festival Medical Services at Glastonbury in 2013. His account explores the planning, multidisciplinary teamwork and varied presentations behind festival healthcare, from minor injuries to critical illness, and the challenges of delivering emergency care in a field hospital.
What I do on my holidays, by Alan Grayson, aged 37 and a half. St.Emlyn’s Read More
When rapid CT is available, what does FAST ultrasound add to trauma care? In this 2013 opinion piece, Simon Carley questions the place of FAST in basic ultrasound training, linking curriculum choices to patient benefit while acknowledging settings where CT is less accessible.
On a FAST track to nowhere at St.Emlyn’s Read More
Could a small chest drain with a Heimlich valve allow selected patients with pneumothorax to receive outpatient care? This 2013 journal club examines a systematic review, weighing encouraging reports against variable study quality, limited randomised evidence and unanswered questions about patient selection.
JC: Should we use Heimlich Valves for ambulatory pneumothorax management? St. Emlyn’s Read More
A 2013 invitation to scrutinise proposals for faster access to stroke thrombolysis. The post links competing discussions about the evidence and asks how assumptions about benefit should inform investment in prehospital pathways and hospital processes.
JC: Time is brain…., calling #FOAMagitators. St.Emlyn’s Read More
