What can a documentary about Tony Slattery teach emergency clinicians about the people they treat? Iain Beardsell reflects on addiction, trauma and mental distress, challenging dismissive labels and urging readers to look beyond a presenting problem to the person’s life and experiences.
Review: Horizon 2020: What’s the Matter with Tony Slattery? Read More
Simon Carley shares highlights from the 2018 BASICS North West conference, spanning prehospital care, sepsis, stroke research and support for clinicians. The report ends with his torso trauma discussion, covering changing interventions, paediatric injuries, assessment of shock and the challenges of care across the patient journey.
Torso Trauma tips and the BASICS North West conference 2018. St Emlyn’s Read More
Do intravenous fluids shorten an emergency department stay for uncomplicated alcohol intoxication? This 2013 journal club reviews a randomised trial, examining its selected patient population, length-of-stay findings and uncertainty, and asks whether an impulse to intervene is supported by evidence.
JC: IV Fluids for alcohol intoxication. St.Emlyn’s Read More
A 2013 reflection on resuscitating patients with suspected recreational drug-induced hyperthermia when the history is incomplete. It explores diagnostic uncertainty, cooling, complications and difficult airway decisions, emphasising the limits of the evidence and the role of specialist poisons advice.
JC: Recreational drug induced hyperthermia. St.Emlyn’s Read More
A hypothetical nightclub presentation explores striking cyanosis with unexpectedly reassuring clinical signs. This 2012 teaching case considers methaemoglobinaemia, interpretation of blood gas results, possible drug exposures and the importance of specialist poisons advice when treatment does not work as expected.
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