Minor Head Injury and Anticoagulants -You Snooze, You Ooze
The diagnosis and treatment of patients with a head injury whilst on anticoagulants.
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Croup: Riding the Dex Express
Management of Croup in the emergency department. Does dexamethasone work?
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Glasgow Blatchford Score 2 – The case for an RCT!
Thanks for a great post, Gareth. If you’ve landed here without reading that post, hit the link – this is a follow on, a ‘deep dive’ in the words of Smart
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Glasgow Scores… Not just for coma any more!
Quick post… NICE have recently published new guidance on Upper GI bleeding. It is surprisingly sensible. I was pleased with their position on PPI’s for upper GI bleeding (not before endoscopy…). The other point
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Low risk chest pain? ADAPT my management?
The ADAPT chest pain risk stratification tool in the emergency department for the diagnosis of ACS acute coronary syndromes
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Deep Vein Thrombosis – New NICE guidance
Is Venous Thrombo Embolism the most controversial area of EM practice at the moment? I think it might be as there is rarely a meeting or conference where the subject
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Tranexamic acid needs a make over
Tranexamic acid and CRASH-2 I was listening to the EMCRIT podcast today. As usual, it was absolutely excellent, but on this occasion, it was especially superb as Scott Weingart was
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JC: Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke – IST3
We have just covered the following paper in our journal club at Manchester Royal Infirmary. The benefits and harms of intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator within 6 h
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