Emergency medicine is a risky business. In this continuing series looking at how we as emergency physicians look at risk we are going to spend a bit of time looking […]
So, we’ve already talked about this. But changing times call for changing posts. And we want to know what you think… A 30 year old comes in 10 days after
The POP, the Chief, his risk assessment and her thromboprophylaxis Read More
A Confession I have a guilty secret. I love cardiac arrests. Yep, I said it. As a brand new doctor, there was something exciting about dashing off to a 2222
ALS: Airway, Breathing, Capnography??? Read More
Journal club was interesting this week. The marvellous AR brought a paper along from the EMJ looking at the use of non-invasive tissue oxygen monitoring in septic patients. Aha, interesting
JC StO2 monitoring in the ED. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Do patients with ST depression (NSTEM) need to go to the Cath Lab urgently?
Cardiology Case 02: ST depression, no rush? St.Emlyn’s Read More
What’s my view? Well how am I supposed to know? Write a review Well how objective can I be? I like to wait to see how things turn out If
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – Apply Some Pressure..? Read More
“Why are you doing an Arterial Blood Gas on that patient?” I thought it was a decent enough question to put to one of our senior EM trainees in the
V & A in the ED – blood gases – St.Emlyn’s Read More
It’s a bit of a standing joke here at St Emlyn’s that I resolutely live in the Yorkshire countryside, aiming for a self-sufficient existence, yet practice what is very much
Where’s the fun in fungi? – St.Emlyn’s Read More
