Patient experience in the Emergency Department
Liz Crowe gives us a fantastic critical appraisal of an EMJ paper discussing the patient experience in the emergency department.
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Medical education
Optimal Timing for Life-Saving Procedures in Critical Care: Finding the Goldilocks Moment
“Time Critical: Information Light” decision-making is vital in emergency medicine, requiring swift actions with minimal data. However, uncertainty decreases over time as more information becomes available.
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Podcast – May 2024 Monthly Round Up – RCEM conference highlights, being EPIC and more
The latest St Emlyn’s monthly podcast with all the best from the blog in May 2024.
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Ten Tips for Better Presentations – Part 1
Presentation skills – what are they and why do we need to have them? This post covers the things to consider before you even open any presentation software.
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Podcast – April 2024 Monthly Round Up – Bougies, cardiac arrest, trauma, sepsis, race and medicine, and choosing with intention
The latest St Emlyn’s podcast with discussion about Bougies, cardiac arrest, trauma, sepsis, race and medicine and choosing with intention
Risky intubations in the Emergency Department
This study in the Journal of Trauma Acute Care Surgery shows that emergency department (ED) intubation for patients needing urgent haemorrhage control surgery is linked to higher mortality and complications. Prioritising rapid resuscitation and OR transfer over ED intubation may improve outcomes. Further prospective research is needed
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Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for rib fractures in the Emergency Department
Review of an RCT of serratus anterior plane blocks in the emergency department for chest/rib injury. Is this now a standard of care?
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An EPiC mental model. St Emlyn’s
The practice of coordinating, consulting and managing an entire acute clinical service in real-time is fairly unique to emergency medicine. Central to this is the EPiC (or emergency physician in charge) role #FOAMed @stemlyns with @codingbrown
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