The Illusion of Frequency. Baader-Meinhof storm St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Isn’t it strange how the incidence of certain pathologies always seems to increase right after you’ve read up on them? Think about it for a moment. At...
View ArticleGetting your chest pain evaluation right: #UMECS16
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Last week, while Iain was giving a keynote lecture in Austria, I was also heading for distant shores to speak about chest pain evaluation at a special...
View ArticleJC: Arrested Developments. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Good quality, practice-changing prehospital research is difficult to come by for a number of reasons, not least the fact that the standalone specialty...
View ArticleMaking ED Visits Easier for Children
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Having attended the ICEM2016 conference in Cape Town a few days ago, I came across a new concept championed by PEM physicians from all over the world: the...
View ArticleJC: Salt or Sugar? Hypertonic saline for head injury at St.Emlyn’s.
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed ‘Why did you give Mannitol?’ asked the Registrar. ‘Hypertonic saline was the standard of care for head injury at St.Elsewhere and I was told it reduced...
View ArticleAn Englishman in South Africa: Robert Lloyd at St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed The greatest honour of my career thus far is being asked to speak at ICEM 2016 in Cape Town. My talk was titled ‘A UK Trainee’s Lessons From the Western...
View ArticleTime to Look Up? St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed I am a big advocate of social media. Many of the best opportunities I have been given have been as a result of connections made online. I have learnt so...
View ArticleManaging Acute Behavioural Disturbance
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed A 31 year old gentleman is wheeled into your resuscitation room by two paramedics and four police officers. You were pre-alerted five minutes ago that...
View ArticleJC: Platelets for Intracranial Haemorrhage. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed The management of stroke is one of those topics that attracts a great deal of controversy in the #FOAMed world, and with good reason. The questions around...
View ArticleJC: Impact Brain Apnoea. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed I’ll keep this post brief. This is not a critical appraisal and it’s not a review. It’s an invite to read a paper I was honoured to help write on the...
View ArticleOverconfidence in the ED
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed If you have ever worked as or with a doctor, you’ve probably encountered something called a multi-source feedback form, or a “360 appraisal”. It is part of...
View ArticleAre you as good as you think you are? St.Emlyn’s at SMACC
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed With just one week to go before the much anticipated SMACC conference in Dublin the St.Emlyn’s team are prepping, packing and pontificating through our...
View ArticleGambling with the evidence workshop resouces. SmaccDUB
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed The SmaccDUB conference is upon us. The worlds of social media, critical care, prehospital care and emergency medicine are descending on the emerald isle’s...
View ArticleSmaccDUB preview post SmaccRUN with St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Excitement builds in anticipation of the conference of the year. Today we are setting up the workshops ready for tomorrow, but there was still time for a...
View ArticleThe BIG questions in EM. Part 1 – Demographics. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed The open door of the emergency department is both a blessing and curse. As emergency physicians we pride ourselves on the ability to see, assess, diagnose...
View ArticleThe BIG questions in EM. Part 2 – Technology. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed When we think of the future it’s easy to leap to advances in technology as the main driver for change. However, as we have seen in part 1 there are other...
View ArticleThe BIG questions in EM. Part 3 – Politics. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Perhaps the greatest influence on the practice of emergency medicine will be how, where, and to some extent when, we fit into the emergency medicine...
View ArticleBe well and be a better critical care clinician. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed This blog supports a recent podcast with Iain Beardsell on well being for clinicians. Although this is not the sexy resus end of critical care or...
View ArticleJC: Does EPO improve OOHCA outcomes? St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Here at St.Emlyn’s we are always interested in improving outcomes from serious illness and injury. In many cases the outcome for patients in terms of their...
View ArticleJC: Helmets or masks for NIV. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed We use a lot of NIV in Virchester. It’s a great technique that can be started in the emergency department as a supportive therapy or as a bridge to...
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