What is Gestalt? St.Emlyn’s
If you’re a #FOAMed fan then you will have come across the term Gestalt quite a lot in recent months. Many conversations about clinical decisions hinge around this elusive, slippery
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How low can you go? Experiential learning at St.Emlyn’s
Some time ago I was teaching our foundation (most junior) doctors about sepsis with a focus on the interpretation of blood gases. The teaching session ran along the usual lines
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JC: Getting Chilly Quickly 3. Hypothermia at St.Emlyn’s
In a rather strange co-incidence two articles landed on my desk this soggy Sunday morning. Firstly we have an RCT of intra-arrest therapeutic hypothermia published in Intensive Care Medicine. Secondly
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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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