From pragmatic frailty care to neurodiversity in medicine and creating safer cultures, Day 2 of RCEM 2025 blended sharp clinical insights with systems thinking.
RCEM Conference 2025: Reflections from Day 2 Read More
Day 1 at RCEM Conference 2025 tackled identity, innovation, wellbeing, and risk in Emergency Medicine. Key insights from Joey Godfrey on St Emlyn’s.
RCEM Conference 2025: Reflections from Day 1 Read More
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.
Podcast – Excellence in Debriefing with Richard Lyon at LTC Read More
Twenty-one years of London’s Air Ambulance data offer a closer look at prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy. This appraisal examines survival, timing and the distinction between tamponade and exsanguination, alongside the limits of applying an observational study from a mature urban service elsewhere.
This discussion of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ 2025 guidance explores how death is defined, diagnosed and confirmed. It considers neurological criteria, evolving technology and the practical and ethical questions these changes raise for emergency and intensive care teams.
Death in 2025: New Definitions, Ethical Questions & Medical Guidelines Read More
Should trauma resuscitation pay more attention to diastolic blood pressure? Simon Carley discusses a physiological argument for rethinking systolic targets, its links with cardiac-arrest research and the evidence still needed before clear diastolic targets can be established.
Is Diastolic Blood Pressure the New Resuscitation Target Read More
This second collection of research from The Big Sick 2025 brings together brief appraisals of trials covering transfusion in brain injury, preoxygenation, sepsis care and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The post considers what the findings might mean for practice and where uncertainty remains.
More trials from TBS 2025. (part 2) Read More
Do physician-led prehospital teams improve outcomes for critically ill or injured patients? This appraisal examines a systematic review and meta-analysis, the differences between the patients and services included, and why largely observational evidence makes the size of any benefit uncertain.
JC: Do physician led prehospital teams improve outcomes? Read More
