Are long waits in A&E lethal for elderly patients?
Greg Yates reviews for Journal Club a review of a JAMA paper on elderly deaths associated with long overnight waits on an ED trolley.
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Emergency Department Management
All of the St Emlyn’s Blog and Podcast content that relates to the management of the Emergency Department.
Retention, working conditions and opportunities in EM
A review of a paper from the EMJ that explores what are that main factors influencing retention, working conditions and opportunties in UK emergency medicine.
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Speaking urgent care flow fluently
Simplifying urgent care data translation is essential for hospital flow improvement. This post provides a perspective on how to achieve this.
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JC: How old is your doctor?
Does the age of your emergency physician influence survival rates? It appears so with more mortality the older the clinician. Why might this be? #FOAMed @stemlyns
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Intensive Care Society #SOA23 – Day 3
Final day here at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art Congress, and although it’s a shorter day there is still a huge amount of variety on the menu,
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Intensive Care Society #SOA23 – Day 1
We love a jolly @StEmlyns and true to form we were off to the UK Intensive Care Society State of the Art conference this week in Birmingham. This is always
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Fracture Follow Up – How to organise this for patients who are ‘out of area’
Do you need to organise follow up for a patient with a fracture, but you are not their local hospital?
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JC: To batch or not to batch? Managing flow in the ED
This JC differs from our usual fare in that it does not focus on a clinical topic; it is not even published in a medical journal. It relates to urgent
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