A 22-year-old South Asian male presents with 2 episodes of haemoptysis on a background of anorexia, weight loss and a dry cough for 2 months.…
SOB – Induction
It’s 5am, the pre-alert phone rings. The ambulance service are bringing in a patient with acute difficulty in breathing…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 9
Another week, another top 5! The volume and quality of evidence continues to grow with the team screening over 1,500 studies. This week’s top 5 contains policy shaping big hitters and an additional +1…
A Sickle for your Thoughts
A 77-year-old man with a one week history of cough (white sputum with specks of blood), shortness of breath and wheezing.…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 8
Another week, another top 5! The team faced well over 2,000 papers this week, along with a couple of big-hitters, which sneaked themselves in…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 7
Another week, another top 5! The team has sorted through thousands of papers…
Making Sepsis Sixy
Everyone’s talking about sepsis lately, but do you know what to do?…
The Crown
A 38-year-old male presents with a continuous cough, shortness of breath and fevers. Over the past 2 days he has had intense generalised muscle aches, fatigue, loss of taste and smell and a reduced ap…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 6
This week’s flash update is the distilled outputs of a global output of more than 1,700 papers a week…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 4
The RCEM Top 5 COVID-19 papers are compiled from expert recommendations, weekly systematic searches, and contributions from the FOAMeD community…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Journal Club The Director’s Cut #3
Authors: Charlie Reynard, Govind Oliver, Sarah Langston, Iain Beardsell, Justin Morgenstern, Anisa Jafar / Editor: Govind Oliver, Charlie Reynard / Codes: CAP6, CAP9, HAP29, HAP6 / Published: 21/05/20…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 5
Another week, another top 5! The team has sorted through thousands of papers, and here are the papers that deserve your attention. If you have the headspace for ten more fantastic papers check out the…
The COVID-19 Arrest
Train hard, fight easy: Managing a cardiopulmonary arrest in a patient with suspected COVID-19…
A Constant Cough
A 9-week-old female infant presents to Paediatric A&E at 2200 hrs with a history of coughing, difficulty in breathing, lethargy and reduced feeding.…
The Waves of COVID-19
Exploring the role of lung ultrasound in patients with COVID-19 in the Emergency Department.…
The Coronavirus Cough
Test your knowledge on dealing with the coronavirus outbreak at your hospital!…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 2
As COVID-19 continues, so does the phenomenal volume of information about it being generated from every corner of the globe. This flash update from the RCEM COVID-19 CPD team, gives clinicians the wee…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 3
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 3…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Journal Club The Director’s Cut #1
In the online journal club and CPD bulletins (also published here on RCEM Learning) we focus on a small number of papers. There are of course more submitted than we can accommodate…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Journal Club The Director’s Cut #2
It’s tough keeping up to date with the ever changing world of Covid19. Whilst we are all working hard at treating patients in the ED and ICU, we also need to try and keep up to date with new evi…