Show Me The Money: Coding at St.Emlyn’s
Have you ever wondered how it is that your hospital gets paid for the work you do? Perhaps you think that this isn’t relevant to you? Well, in this podcast […]
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New NICE high sensitivity troponin guidance: 3 hours and done?
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from the UK has just published new recommendations for the use of high sensitivity troponin to rule out NSTEMI in the
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Acute Heart Failure
It’s fair to say we quite like a guideline here at St Emlyn’s. We have, probably like your ED, evidence-based clinical decision support guidelines for common (think cardiac chest pain
JC: Should USS be first investigation for renal colic? St.Emlyn’s
A few years ago I was asked to see a patient in the rapid assessment unit with severe pain in the flank. She looked as though she had renal colic
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Top ten tips for In Situ Sim at St.Emlyns.
I recently had the opportunity to speak at the European Society of Emergency Medicine Conference in Amsterdam about in situ simulation. Although the title of the talk was Guerrilla Sim
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For the Record: Can Patients Record Clinical Consultations?
Somewhere in the ITV archives is television footage of me, on my first day in the PED as an ST3 doctor, assessing a child with a scald in resus. I
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Obi Wan’s Guide to Emergency Medicine. Rich Carden at St.Emlyn’s
Ok, so Obi Wan Kenobi, to my knowledge, never actually practiced emergency medicine, although he had some pretty awesome Jedi skills that would work a treat in the ED. For
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JC – Just Checking: Do Follow-Up Phone Calls Reduce Reattendance to PED?
Lots of patients we see in the ED do not require hospital admission and this is especially true of the paediatric ED where children often attend with parents seeking advice for management
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