RCEM Conference 2025: Reflections from Day 1
Day 1 at RCEM Conference 2025 tackled identity, innovation, wellbeing, and risk in Emergency Medicine. Key insights from Joey Godfrey on St Emlyn’s.
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Podcast – Excellence in Debriefing with Richard Lyon at LTC
Recorded at the London Trauma Conference 2024, Richard Lyon shares insights from his powerful presentation on the importance of detailed case learning and debriefing both in hospital and pre-hospital settings.
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JC: Pre Hospital Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – data from 21 years at London’s Air Ambulance
Review the publication from London’s Air Ambulance of their fascinating data on the survivability from resuscitative thoracotomy. @stemlyns #FOAMed
Death in 2025: New Definitions, Ethical Questions & Medical Guidelines
What does it truly mean to be dead? In 2025, updates to Death by Neurological Criteria (DNC) challenge long-standing medical definitions, raising new ethical and practical questions. This post explores the latest AOMRC guidelines, the evolving role of brainstem death, and how these changes impact emergency and intensive care medicine. Are we redefining death, or refining how we diagnose it?
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Is Diastolic Blood Pressure the New Resuscitation Target
This week, I read a great article in the EMJ by Dan Horner and Rich Carden on new resuscitation targets. notably the use of diastolic blood pressure. DBP is the
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More trials from TBS 2025. (part 2)
This blog post provides concise summaries of recent critical care trials, including HEMOTION, PREOXI, BLING III, CLASSIC, EVIDENCE, VICTOR, and PARAMEDIC-3. Each trial is examined for its key findings, strengths, limitations, and practical implications for clinical practice. The post aims to inform healthcare professionals about the latest evidence-based practices in critical care. #FOAMed
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JC: Do physician led prehospital teams improve outcomes?
What is the impact of physician-led interprofessional pre-hospital teams on survival and mortality outcomes for critically ill and injured patients.
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Maintenance of Prehospital Anaesthesia in Trauma Patients: Variability in Practice
Explore the variability in maintaining prehospital anaesthesia for trauma patients in this comprehensive summary of a multinational survey.
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