Torticollis: A Real Pain in the Neck
By the time you’ve worked in the Emergency Department for more than a week it’s highly likely you’ll have seen a patient who has a bit of a sore neck […]
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JC: Getting Chilly Quickly 4. Doing It For The Kids
We have looked at therapeutic hypothermia not once, not twice, but three times already here at St Emlyn’s; most of our ED consultants also work, at least some of the time,
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JC: An International Clinical Trials Day Special
International Clinical Trials Day 2015 is on 20th May. To mark the occasion we’re going to run an extra special critical appraisal. This time, let’s look at an awesome piece
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JC: Are typical chest pain symptoms predictive of outcome? St.Emlyn’s
We love a bit of meta-cognition here at St.Emlyn’s. As time passes and we all become a little longer in the tooth it becomes increasingly apparent that it’s not just
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JC: One Benzo Fits All? Lorazepam vs Diazepam for Paediatric Status Epilepticus
It’s been a little quiet of late here in the lofty towers of St Emlyn’s Virtual Hospital, not because the patients have stopped coming (trust me, they haven’t) but because
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Are We Doing All We Can For Mental Health? St.Emlyn’s
Is Mental Health a Problem in the ED? Acute (and chronic) mental health issues in the ED, to me, represent one of the trickiest and perhaps most poorly dealt with
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Top 10 Trauma papers 2014-2015. St.Emlyn’s
I was recently at the Trauma Care UK conference in Telford. As ever, it’s a great bunch of people working hard to improve trauma management in the UK. My talk
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JC: K is Good For You – Subdissociative Ketamine vs Morphine in the ED
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of ketamine and its clinical applications. So when I spotted this paper in my daily PubMed notification email (see here for tips from
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