Explore the principles of evidence-based medicine, including critical appraisal, clinical decision-making, and the latest research in emergency and acute care. Our posts help clinicians interpret evidence, apply it to practice, and improve patient outcomes with a scientific approach.
There is a bit of a buzz on social media at the moment1 about an interesting paper in the NEJM2 on the prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in patients with syncope3. […]
Prevalence of PE in patients with syncope Read More
This month the emergency department point of care ultrasound in out-of-hospital and in-ED cardiac arrest trial from the REASON1 trial is published in the journal Resuscitation. This has been rumoured
JC: Is this the REASON to use USS in cardiac arrest? St.Emlyn’s Read More
This week we look at the RINSE trial1, a trial examining the prehospital use of hypothermia in post cardiac arrest patients. Therapeutic hypothermia has had a bit of a rollercoaster
JC. Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia: The RINSE trial. St.Emlyn’s Read More
This month I was honoured that a study I wrote with some terrific colleagues from Europe, Australia and the US has been published as the ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Academic Emergency Medicine.
One high sensitivity troponin test to rule out acute myocardial infarction Read More
If you’ve had your eye on twitter in the last couple of days you might have spotted this paper about women speakers at conferences published online ahead of print
JC: Are There Too Few Women Speakers at Conferences? Read More
Critical Appraisal of the medical literature is a key part of the armamentarium of a good Emergency Physician, not just to pass tricky exams, but also to stay up to
Critical Appraisal Nuggets – The St.Emlyn’s CAN Podcast Read More
We’ve been interested in Ketofol for many years in Virchester. We were early adopters as the pathopharmacological argument makes sense for patients requiring sedation for short painful procedures in the
JC: Is Ketofol worth the hassle? St.Emlyn’s Read More
It’s 3am in resus and you are trying to save the life of a young man. He has been brought to the ED after collapsing in a nightclub and he
Sci-Hub. The pirate future of medical publishing? St.Emlyn’s. Read More
