Emergency Medicine #FOAMed
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This week the team is out in sunny South Africa taking the opportunity to help run The Teaching CoOp course in Cape Town. This is the same course that we will be running back in Manchester later this year1 so…
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Imagine if you will, a hypotensive alcoholic with active haematemesis and melaena, something they taught us in medical school, earning its own place in OSCEs and even a page in the cheese and onion.1 In fact, you think as you…
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Simon has already covered the recent SMART trial1, regarding the comparison of balanced crystalloid solutions versus normal saline for resuscitation in critically ill adults. However, there was another paper in the same edition of the NEJM looking at a similar…
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There has a been a little flutter of activity in the #FOAMed world this week about two trials published in the NEJM on the subject of balanced fluids in the care of critically ill patients, and also on admitted patients…
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Ed – This blog is the first from our friend and colleague Rusty whom you may well have met a SMACC conference, seen him online, or at the SMACC FORCE simulations with the ATACC group. This blog explores health and…
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We are so excited to announce that the internationally acclaimed Teaching Co-Operative Course is coming to Manchester in 2018 on the 10-12th October. This course developed out of The Teaching Course (aka TTC) which paved the way for masterclasses in…
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This appeared on my Twitter feed recently and also on Life in the Fast Lane, and I think we need to log it here too 🙂 It’s an amazing insight into how Casualty units worked in the 1970s and my…
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Claire Bromley (that’s me third from the right in the photo) I am currently a fourth year medical student studying at St. Emlyn’s, and was inspired to write this after reading multiple pieces from emergency medicine clinicians across the UK,…
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This is huge. SMACC’s back, live and loud in Manchester on the 10th March 2018. The 2019 conference launch is taking place across the globe with parties in Sydney, New York and Manchester on Saturday 10th March. St.Emlyn’s are truly…
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This is a guest post from our good friend Stevan Bruijns aka @codingbrown Stevan has been an advocate of international emergency medicine for many years and he, like us feels that there is much that high income countries can do…
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