Air Zermatt, Ashley Liebig, SMACC and St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed En route to #dasMACC this year, I had the incredible opportunity to visit colleagues at Air Zermatt (@airzermatt) in Switzerland. With an exceptional view of...
View ArticleSo, you’re about to become an ST3? Part 1 – Portfolio
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed In the UK, the route to Emergency Medicine Consultantdom starts after foundation training, with a three year funfest commonly known as Acute Care Common Stem, or...
View ArticleSo, you’re about to become an ST3? Part 2 – Work/Life
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed It’s changeover week, so across the country trainees are moving up a grade in their career ladder. There are new doctors, just finished medical school. There...
View ArticleThe 2017 ACEM Winter Symposium with Katherine Gridley.
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This year the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) winter symposium was held in the beautiful Barossa valley in South Australia. This 4 day...
View ArticleHow to manage your boss (the expert patient in the ED). St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This is another guest blog from our friend and colleague Andy Volans, Consutlant in Emergency Medicine. We’ve all been subjected to the challenge of the...
View ArticleThe MSc in Emergency medicine with MMU. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed My apologies in advance for a bit of advertising about the MSc in Emergency medicine that we run here in Manchester. The program was the first MSc in EM in the...
View ArticleJC: Apnoeic Oxygenation (again). St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed We’ve debated Apnoeic Oxygenation on St.Emlyn’s in the past1. Physiologically it kind of makes sense. The idea that we can put ‘Os up the Nose’ (as someone...
View ArticleJC: The VTE and Major Trauma. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed All good EM/CC clinicians know that venous thrombo embolism (VTE) is a potential complication of traumatic injury. The immobilisation and haematological changes...
View ArticleSkills, struggles and surfing: St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This blog is a little different, a bit more personal than usual as it’s about my experience in learning something new. If you’re not that interested in skills...
View ArticleUnforgettable: Don’t Forget the Bubbles 2017 (#DFTB17) with Kat Gridley &...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed My name is Katherine Gridley and as a Brisbane local and emergency registrar with a paeds interest, I jumped at the chance to talk about one of the latest...
View ArticleHow to declare a Major Incident. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Recent attacks in Manchester, London and around the world have heightened our awareness of the possibility of a major incident being declared at any time of day...
View ArticleTaking a travel history in the ED by StEmlyns
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Clinical scenario: A young man returns from Thailand where he spent two weeks in rural areas backpacking, rafting, mountain climbing before he starts...
View ArticleRheum for Improvement? The physical challenge of EM training. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Ed – what if EM was your passion, but you also had a chronic disease that made it even more of a struggle? How would you cope, what would you do, and how could...
View ArticleJC: Oxygen in ACS. A fuss about nothing? The DETO2X Trial at St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed DETO2X-SWEDEHEART sounds like a new low-carb, high-alkali, So-Cal diet plan but it is actually a trial exploring the affect of oxygen on mortality in patients...
View ArticleMass Casualty Incidents: Lessons from AAST. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Mass Casualty Incidents: What can we (re)learn? This year, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma held its Annual Meeting in Baltimore – a city I...
View ArticleWho gets a Tetanus? You get a Tetanus!
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed It’s another shift in Virchester ED. You’ve picked up the next card; a 12 year old has stepped on a nail in her grandparents’ garden. You have a look, there’s...
View ArticleResearch Workshop at EMSSA. St.Emlyn’s on tour.
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Research workshop at EMSSA It strikes me that pre-conference workshops increasingly demonstrate the best place to learn new things. The groups are smaller,...
View ArticleEMSSA Day 1 review. Co-created review with St.Emlyn’s.
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed So that’s the end of day 1 here at Sun City. This is EMS day and so we have a number of streams addressing the world of prehospital, emergency department...
View ArticleEMSSA Day 3 co-created review with St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed The last day of EMSSA had a real reflective feel to it. A day to think about where we have come from, where we are and where we are going. There were some...
View ArticleSt Emlyn’s in Review – October 2017
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed It’s great to be back podcasting again after what has been a busy few months, We’re sorry for the hiatus, but occasionally other stuff gets in the way! Here we...
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