New Year, New Tetanus
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed 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...
View ArticleApril Podcast Round Up
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed It’s been another busy month at St Emlyn’s, with the publication of 15 blog posts and five podcasts, but there does seem to be an awful lot to talk about! Of...
View ArticleTop 10 Trauma Papers for Trauma UK conference. 2020-2021. St Emyln’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed It’s that time of year again when the Trauma Care UK conference comes around and I get to talk about 10 interesting trauma papers from the last 12 months or so....
View ArticleAugust 2021 podcast round up. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Our regular round up of the best of the blog from August 2021 with Iain and Simon. The post August 2021 podcast round up. St Emlyn’s appeared first on St.Emlyn's.
View ArticleJC: CTCA for cardiac chest pain in the ED. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed 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...
View ArticleJC: Re-evaluating risk factors for Cauda Equina. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed 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...
View Article#EuSEM21 The power of stories in Emergency medicine education revisited.
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed 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...
View ArticleJC: Can we use smaller pigtail drains in traumatic haemothorax?
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed 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...
View ArticleOctober round up podcast. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Our regular round up of the October 2021 content from the blog and podcast at St Emlyn’s with Iain and Simon. The post October round up podcast. St Emlyn’s...
View ArticleCODA: Is Emergency Medicine a failed paradigm? Revisited with St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed 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...
View ArticleTalking Trauma – London Trauma Conference 2024 Day 2
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Day 2 of the London Trauma Conference delivered impactful discussions on trauma care innovations, including advanced resuscitation strategies, rib fracture...
View ArticlePodcast – Monthly Round Up November 2024 – Learning culture, chest drains,...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed The monthly update podcast from November 2024, including learning culture, chest drains in haemothorax, arterial lines in cardiac arrest and bad behaviour. The...
View ArticlePodcast – Monthly Round Up December 2024 – Chest trauma, IO access, AI and more
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This month’s St Emlyn’s podcast wraps up Season 11 discusses new evidence on chest trauma management, intraosseous access safety, pediatric imaging updates, AI...
View ArticleDeath in 2025: New Definitions, Ethical Questions & Medical Guidelines
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed What does it truly mean to be dead? In 2025, updates to Death by Neurological Criteria (DNC) challenge long-standing medical definitions, raising new ethical and...
View ArticleRCEM Conference 2025: Reflections from Day 1
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Day 1 at RCEM Conference 2025 tackled identity, innovation, wellbeing, and risk in Emergency Medicine. Key insights from Joey Godfrey on St Emlyn’s. The post...
View ArticleRCEM Conference 2025: Reflections from Day 2
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed From pragmatic frailty care to neurodiversity in medicine and creating safer cultures, Day 2 of RCEM 2025 blended sharp clinical insights with systems thinking....
View ArticlePodcast – Monthly Round Up February 2025 – Skills Fade, Resuscitation Targets...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed In this episode of the St Emlyn’s Podcast, Iain and Simon reflect on IncrEMentuM 2025, skills fade in rare procedures, arterial line placement, and emerging...
View ArticleJC: Salbutamol for Analgesia in Renal Colic – Worth a Puff or a Painful...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Can salbutamol relieve pain in renal colic? We review a phase II randomised controlled trial exploring intravenous salbutamol as an adjunct analgesic in the...
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