Tag: St.Emlyn’s
New Year, New Tetanus
With all the excitement over Christmas and New Year (we hope you all had a wonderful time by the way!), you might have missed a bit of a change in the guidelines on wound management …
A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Four
This post is the final post of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th October 2018. …
JC: Conservative management of chest trauma. St Emlyn’s
We have previously blogged on the topic of chest tube/drain management1. In one of our most widely read posts we argued that many pneumothoraces can be managed without a chest drain. When trained as a …
Breaking down tribalism. #onetribeEMTA St Emlyn’s
This is the basic script that supported my presentation, “Breaking Down Tribalism”. I recently presented this at EMTA2018, the Emergency Medicine Trainees Association conference in Cardiff. It is a privilege to be allowed to be …
Beyond A(C)LS. Salim Rezaie at #stemlynsLIVE
Ed – This blog is based on the talk Salim gave at #stemlynsLIVE in Manchester back in September 2018. The background and data below was first published on the REBEL EM website and is reproduced here …
Learning in the Social Age. St Emlyn’s at #EMERGE10
Learning in the social age. Implications for emergency medicine training, #FOAMed
A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Three
This post is the third of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th October 2018. You …
Education theories you should know: Cognitive load theory. St Emlyn’s
I was lucky enough to be involved recently with a conference in Virchester that brought together some great clinical educators from across the world. During the conference, there was a lot of talk about cognitive …
So Unsexy – Why We Shouldn’t Use The Word Sexy in Clinical Medicine #FIX18
The following post is a transcript of my talk at #FIX18 in New York. You can listen to the podcast of the talk here https://feminem.org/podcast/so-unsexy/ You can watch a video of the presentation here and …
Everything old is new again – whole blood in the trauma bay – St Emlyn’s
One thing is clear from the military and civilian literature – hemorrhage kills1,2. Overall, 40-50,000 deaths per year in the US are preventable with appropriate hemorrhage control and resuscitation. The demographic of these victims is …