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Talking to Teens: Top Tips

In this blog we will talk about how to overcome barriers, which will help you build trust with and get the information you need from the patient to treat them and keep them safe, with some great insights from young people working with Redthread.
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Frailty Associated Pneumonia

Is it time to ditch ‘Aspiration Pneumonia’ and replace it with ‘Frailty Associated Pneumonia’?
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The Importance of Debrief

This was originally published as part of the medical student iBook. We’ve reproduced it here with some additions as we think it’s great, and as much as this is written from a medical student perspective, it could be a new FY2 or a new nurse - or an old hand. 
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Coughing, Wheezy and Stridulous Children

Children with noisy or difficult breathing often present to the Emergency Department (ED). The acuity of these patients varies, but any of the conditions that cause respiratory symptoms can be life threatening
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Metabolic Babies in the ED.. Easy As 1.. 2.. 3

Inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) are disorders of chemical pathways. These diseases led to dangerous deficiencies or excesses of chemicals.
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Delivering Bad News

This blog aims to introduce some concepts around bad or difficult news, link to some structures for delivering bad news, and hopefully stimulate some further thoughts and discussions.
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Paediatric heart murmurs & what to make of them

Children are often found to have a heart murmur when seen in the Emergency Department, but when does a heart murmur actually mean something?
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Floating in the Face of Danger: MaxFax injuries in the ED

This blog discusses the preparation, assessment and management of the patients presenting with maxillofacial injuries.
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Abdominal Pain in Children

Abdominal pain is a common presentation in paediatrics-increasing as the child gets older. Hopefully, this blog will serve as a guide of what to look for, when to refer and when to worry!
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Lumbar Spine Injuries in Adult Trauma

Poor old lumbar spine – it does a lot of the heavy lifting for the body but probably doesn’t get anywhere near the attention of the cervical spine when it comes to trauma.
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PEM and ex-Prems

Advances in neonatal care have resulted in more ex-prems being discharged into the community, and these fragile neonates tend to be ‘frequent fliers’.
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Informed Consent

The legal aspects of Emergency Medicine can be difficult and often a trainee spends less time reading about these, unless a specific situation arises in work.

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