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JC: Finger on the Pulse?
If you’re an avid follower of FOAM, you’ll have seen many assertions that manual pulse checks by healthcare providers during cardiac arrest are pretty unreliable at best. The most commonly advocated alternatives are EtCO2 increase …
JC: Should we rubber STAAMP prehospital TXA?
This post is co-published with our friends at REBEL EM. Background: It almost seems that when it comes to the use of the antifibrinolytic agent tranexamic acid (TXA) in trauma, one argument has just been …
September Round Up Podcast
Welcome to our audio round up of everything on the blog during September. It’s been a relatively quiet on the blog post this month, but we chat through not only blogposts on the REMAP-CAP trial, …
VTE and COVID-19: Would you like to know more?
That’s a leading question. Of course you would. Who wouldn’t want to know more about a disease that has killed >1 million people to date, worldwide. Who wouldn’t want to know more about the thromboembolic risk associated …
JC: Hydroxychloroquine in the the treatment of hospitalised COVID19 patients.
We previously covered the RECOVERY trial press release on the use of HCQ for hospitalised patients with COVID19. This is a UK based platform trial (more on this later) looking at patients admitted to hospital …
JC: Antibiotics or Surgery for appendicitis.
Appendicitis is a common problem in the emergency department, and for many years the standard of care has been to perform surgery to resolve it. When I trained in surgery (before transferring to EM) this …
JC: Can we give tranexamic acid (TXA) via the IM route? St Emlyn’s
Tranexamic Acid (TXA) is a mainstay of trauma management. CRASH 2 (2) demonstrated its effectiveness in bleeding patients and CRASH 3 (1,5) (in my opinion) showed that we should also be using it in mild/moderate …
Medical School Lesson Plan – Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
References and Further Reading Swaminathan A, Beck Emsay J. Episode 96.0 – Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Core EM Podcast. May 2017 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. NICE Guidance. October 2018 Farkas, J. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. EMCrit. January 2rd …
CODA ZERO update: Gender and Ethics
This week I should be on my way to Australia for the CODA Change conference. For obvious reasons I am not going and am sat at home in Manchester enjoying the last remnants of the …
St Emlyn’s Lesson Plans Library – HST Teaching
Click here for a guide on how to use the St Emlyn’s Lesson Plans and some of the educational theory behind them. A podcast explaining the background to the project and how you might use …