Catch up with St Emlyn’s in the December 2018 podcast roundup. The accompanying reading links cover teamwork across specialty boundaries, clinical handover, chest trauma and HIV, alongside reports from the Intensive Care Society meeting and the FemInEM Ideas Exchange.
Podcast – December 2018 Monthly Round Up Read More
What makes a clinical handover work when a critically ill patient arrives? Drawing on a 2018 Intensive Care Society presentation, this post explores preparation, team attention, structured communication and follow-up. It offers adaptable principles for sharing essential information while recognising that urgent treatment sometimes takes priority.
Handover. Process, practice and controversy. #ICSSOA2018. St Emlyn’s Read More
What stays with clinicians after a lesson learned the hard way? Natalie May reflects on an EMSA 2018 session covering handover, prehospital priorities, career values and preparation. Her own contribution examines implicit bias, privilege and the need to understand a patient’s perspective rather than assume it matches our own.
Lessons Learned at #EMSA18 Read More
What does an ED handover look like from the other side of the stretcher? Ashley Liebig draws on prehospital experience to discuss respect, a calm reception and uninterrupted communication, then asks teams to agree and practise a shared approach to transferring care.
Ashley Liebig at Resuscitate NYC17. St.Emlyn’s Read More
