Review: The Essence of Emergency Medicine
It was a long day. After getting home from a late shift the night before, I was up at 4 to catch my 0530 train, and toddled off down to London. What, […]
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APLS weight estimation – don’t do it (well almost never). St.Emlyn’s
I’m an APLS instructor & course director and have contributed various bits and bobs over the years and it’s a great course. I’d go further and say that it’s a
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JC: Do paediatric CT scans cause cancer? St.Emlyn’s
If I think back to my practice a few years ago (as I’m getting older) there is no doubt that the number of CT scans I’ve performed from the ED
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Do Emergency Physicians judge patients on race, sex, sexual orientation, weight, etc.? St. Emlyn’s
A few years back I picked up a book at the airport by a chap called Malcolm Gladwell, a rather famous writer it turns out and one familiar to many
Emergency Medicine: A risky business part 6. How many steps to disaster?
So what do we mean by a miss exactly? Is it always a terrible thing and why is it that if we constantly miss diagnoses (we do you know) we
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Does Magnesium work in asthma? St.Emlyn’s
wikimedia This is a roller coaster journey for me. Many years ago Virchester ED was one of the first hospitals to start using Magnesium for the treatment of acute severe
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It’s Good to Talk – Debrief in the Emergency Department
There is so much I could write about the role and value of our own humanity in the Emergency Department although much of it has been said before by people
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JC: Cullen on high sensitivity Troponin. St.Emlyn’s
There has been much debate about the use of high sensitivity troponins in the ED over the last year, but the picture is getting clearer as we see more trials
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