Back in 2015 the James Lind organisation helped us set research priorities for emergency medicine in the UK. St Emlyn’s were proud to support the process at that time as …
James Lind research priority setting. St Emlyn’s Read More »
Iain and Simon recap the highlights on the blog from December 2021. The best of the month plus a few reflections on the year and a look forward to 2022. …
Bradycardia in the trauma patient can be a perilous sign. One might observe a typical course of events in which a bleeding trauma patient progresses through the compensatory mechanisms in …
What is the Bezold-Jarisch Reflex and why do I care?! St Emlyn’s Read More »
A trial published in JAMA asks exactly this question, the full text can be found here. The abstract is below, but as we always say, please read the full paper …
JC: Should we use calcium in out of hospital cardiac arrest? St Emlyn’s Read More »
This week the CODA team have re-released the video and audio from a talk I did with Scott Weingart at SMACC in Dublin. We were tasked with answering the question …
CODA: Is Emergency Medicine a failed paradigm? Revisited with St Emlyn’s Read More »
Our regular round up of the October 2021 content from the blog and podcast at St Emlyn’s with Iain and Simon.
Back in 2016 we published a blog on chest drains and chest aspiration, in which we argued that the dogma of putting in huge drains for traumatic haemothoraces should be …
JC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax? Read More »
This week I was lucky enough to attend the European Society of Emergency Medicine conference in Lisbon in person. It has been a wonderful experience to once again reconnect with …
#EuSEM21 The power of stories in Emergency medicine education revisited. Read More »
The diagnosis of cauda equina in the emergency department is complex and has the potential for significant patient harm if we get it wrong. Linda Dykes put together an excellent …
JC: Re-evaluating risk factors for Cauda Equina. St Emlyn’s Read More »
Computed Coronary Angiography (CTCA) has been advocated as a useful adjunct in the investigation of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the ED. Although we’ve made huge progress in the diagnosis …
JC: CTCA for cardiac chest pain in the ED. St Emlyn’s Read More »