Explore essential critical care topics, including sepsis, respiratory failure, haemodynamic support, and trauma resuscitation. Our evidence-based posts provide practical guidance on managing critically ill patients in emergency and acute care settings.
Here at St.Emlyn’s we are big fans of Tranexamic Acid in trauma. We believe that it makes a difference to overall mortality in patients likely to be bleeding and also […]
JC: Tranexamic acid – does the evidence stack up? Read More
I was absolutely delighted this week to attend the first day of the Retrieval 2014 conference in Glasgow. I first came across this conference in 2013 when I followed the
Paediatric sepsis: The first hour. PLUS St.Emlyn’s at #Retrieval2014 Read More
Coagulopathy is well known to be a significant issue in the ED. There is increasing awareness that the early awareness, detection and management of coagulation problems is important for ED
JC. ROTEM for ED coagulopathy detection. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Two papers on the prepublication list at the Resuscitation Journal. The first is open access (#FOAMed), and both are worth a read. There are some great resus pearls in here.
JC: Rapid update on the resus pearls of 2013. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Last week we saw the publication of the ProCESS study suggesting that protocolised treatment of sepsis makes little difference to outcome. A little earlier we heard that cooling to 33C
JC: What has an awesome NNT of 5.8 for severe sepsis? St.Emlyn’s Read More
 Gosh, hardly a day goes by in the world of FOAMed without another tweet alerting me to the wonders of research. Today is no exception and despite being here at
JC: Is Early Goal Directed Therapy dead? St.Emlyn’s Read More
Of course you are, as Cliff Reid put it at SMACC2013 you are possibly even an ATLS instructor – you trauma badass! Why even ask the question? As a consultant
Are you a good Trauma Team Leader? St.Emlyn’s Read More
Here in Virchester we believe that families are important. Natalie has written before about the benefits of family presence during paediatric resuscitation and it’s pretty much standard practice in both
JC: Family presence for Brain Death Evaluation. St.Emlyn’s Read More
