JC Are we doing too many CTPAs? St.Emlyn’s
Well! I go away for 1 week to Devon to spend time with the family and to visit the holiday haunts of Agatha Christie and what do you know? JC […]
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JC: Diagnostic panacea? USS that paeds abscess?
Most emergency physicians love gadgets. Â And ultrasound machines are great gadgets. If you’re keeping up with the Emergency Medicine literature, you’d be forgiven for believing that ultrasound is the way
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Balanced Sedation in the ED
Sedation in the Emergency Department So I said……….. ….because I was trying to be a bit cheeky. There is a serious point here though. I don’t know the exact motivation
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Is this what we mean by critical care? Feedback at St.Emlyn’s
Over the years, we’ve been building up a profile of our virtual hospital, St. Emlyn’s.  Here, let’s explore the way we reflect on cases in Emergency Medicine, and take a look at what might go
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Emergency Medicine, a risky business Part 3. How often is it acceptable for me to be wrong?
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
The POP, the Chief, his risk assessment and her thromboprophylaxis
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
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ALS: Airway, Breathing, Capnography???
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
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JC StO2 monitoring in the ED. St.Emlyn’s
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
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