JC: Can we rule out ACS by a single prehospital troponin measurement?
A review of a paper from the European Heart Journal looking at the prehospital use of troponin in patients with low risk chest pain.
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JC: Should we rubber STAAMP prehospital TXA?
This post is co-published with our friends at REBEL EM. Background: It almost seems that when it comes to the use of the antifibrinolytic agent tranexamic acid (TXA) in trauma, …
#TacT19: St Emlyn’s on tour with Pete Hulme
I’m not as big a conference attendee like some people I know (Ed – you mean @EMManchester), but when I heard the conference had its own Spotify playlist (featuring the …
104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s
Firstly, the title of this post is not a typo. When I collated the reflective lessons from my series of Sydney HEMS blog posts I realised there were actually 104, …
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101 Reflective Lessons from a Year with Sydney HEMS. Part Seven: Life Lessons
This post, detailing my reflections on life lessons, is the seventh and final post in a series recording my reflections on the twelve months I spent working for Sydney HEMS …
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Bringing the Outdoor Classroom Indoors – #MedEd at #smaccFORCE #smaccDUB
Before February this year I had no prehospital experience whatsoever – so standing up in front of a crowd at the smacc prehospital workshop #smaccFORCE, I felt like a bit …
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Impact Brain Apnoea with Gareth Davies from London HEMS. St.Emlyn’s
I was recently discussing the management of traumatic cardiac arrest with one of my junior colleagues and was surprised to hear that they had not heard of impact brain apnoea …
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JC: Is there any point teaching paramedics? St.Emlyn’s
OK, so it’s a provocative title, but it reflects my thoughts when I first saw this paper on teaching paramedics and in particular when I saw the conclusion. ‘….the evidence …
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