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January 2025

The smooth we have Staff turnover and mortality | Acute kidney injury | The FIDO Study (Assessment of febrile infants) | New Online…

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Domestic Violence

12% of ED attendances are related to domestic abuse. ED physicians are in a unique position to identify these cases.…

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Helicopter Safety and Familiarisation

In undertaking emergency medical or rescue work the helicopter and its crew may operate under difficult conditions but safety must underpin all missions.
This module covers aspects of helicopter safet…

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Helicopter Safety and Familiarisation

In undertaking emergency medical or rescue work the helicopter and its crew may operate under difficult conditions but safety must underpin all missions.
This session covers aspects of helicopter safe…

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Bullying in the ED

Bullying is something that an unacceptably high number of healthcare workers will experience. Despite priding itself in being a friendly specialty with a flattened hierarchy, those working in emergenc…

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Deliberate Self-Harm

A patient with a prior diagnosis of EUPD is brought to the ED by a friend because he has cut his arm with a Stanley Knife.…

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October 2024

This month we have Peripheral Hypertonic Saline | RCEM Learning Disability Toolkit | EM at the Deep End | New in EM: Double Sequential Defibrillation for Refractory VF (Dose-VF Trial) | New Online…

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Flank Pain!

A 30-year-old male patient is brought to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance with a sudden onset of severe right flank pain over the previous 6 hours.…

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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 perspecti…

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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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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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Not Another Hyperemesis

This case discusses a young woman who presents to the ED at 11/40 gestation with intractable vomiting and altered mental status for three days.…

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