TBI: The Final Frontier…
Summer hols and quiet times for many of us at present, so apologies for lack of posts. There is always stuff going on in the background however, and several of […]
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Musings form the evidence based journal club at St Emlyns
Summer hols and quiet times for many of us at present, so apologies for lack of posts. There is always stuff going on in the background however, and several of […]
TBI: The Final Frontier… Read More »
This week we have a nice paper that highlights some of the ongoing thoughts and controversies about the use of calcium in major haemorrhage protocols. Hopefully you’ve already read Iain’s
More on Calcium and blood products in trauma. St Emlyn’s Read More »
As someone who works across both PEM and adult EM it’s interesting to reflect on how the workload varies. These days my adult work is heavily skewed to complex majors
The FORCE study: St Emlyn’s Read More »
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes This paper is recently off the press and has already sparked both interest and debate here at Virchester and in the wider Emergency Medicine community.
Just a quick review this week as this is a paper published back in December that has been superbly reviewed already over on the SGEM. However, it’s an interesting topic
JC: Etomidate vs. Ketamine for emergency intubation. 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.
December 2021 Podcast round up. 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 »
There is no doubt that sub-arachnoid haemorrhage is an important diagnosis in the emergency department. It is arguably especially important in the cohort of patients who present with lesser signs/symptoms
JC: Are CT scanners getting more sensitive at detecting SAH? St Emlyn’s Read More »