The FORCE study: St Emlyn’s
As someone who works across both PEM and adult EM it’s interesting to reflect on how the workload varies. These days my adult work is heavily skewed to complex majors …
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Anaphylaxis – A Guideline Update
Although this post is mainly about the new Anaphylaxis Guidelines published recently, please bear with me while we get a little nerdy with some physiology first… For anyone starting out …
JC: Spot the Difference, what can we do about petechiae? St Emlyn’s
Back in 2013, I wrote a post here on petechiae in well kids; it received a phenomenal number of views for reasons I don’t quite understand (I think it ended …
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Covid-19 in Italy with Roberto Cosentini part 2. St Emlyn’s
Ed – Back at the beginning of the pandemic we had a fantastic contribution from our friend and colleague Roberto Cosentini on the Bergamo experience of dealing with this terrible …
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JC: IN Fentanyl vs Ketamine for analgesia in PED. St Emlyn’s
Last year we reviewed a pilot RCT comparing IN Fentanyl vs IN Ketamine in kids​1,2​. We concluded that they were probably similar in analgesic effect but that Ketamine had a …
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Foreskins: A PED primer. St.Emlyn’s
Following on from the first post in Paediatric Surgery 101 we come to the tricky topic of foreskins. Management of foreskins is best summed up by the phrase shouted by …
I think my child has a hernia: St.Emlyn’s.
It’s 3am on the back end of one of those horrible casino shifts in the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Department. Triage says there’s a mum in the cubicle with a 4 …
You Snooze, You Lose? #smaccUS The Child with Altered Consciousness
As a part of the #smaccMINI workshop back in Chicago in 2015, I spoke about the approach to the child with an altered conscious level. The podcast is below along …
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