You move to your second base as some divers have surfaced and are getting ready to pack up. You notice one of them is swaying left and right and stops due to complaints of pain in his back. He has sta…
Sun, Sea and Altitude Emergencies – Part 1
Big city medicine can sometimes be tricky to tick the box that says “Environmental Emergencies” in the RCEM curriculum. But a day in the life of a doctor living in more “outdoor̶…
The Camel’s Hump?
An elderly lady presents to the emergency department from a nursing home having been found on the floor in her room…
Not Dead until Warm and Dead
Management of Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest…
Severe Hypothermia
The human body has evolved to work within a narrow, carefully maintained, core temperature range…
Cardiac Arrest in Special Circumstances: Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest
The temperate climate of the UK means that severe hypothermia leading to cardiovascular instability and cardiac arrest is rare…
Hypothermia
Hypothermia is the pathological state in which the core body temperature falls below 35°C…
RCEM Blog Book 2
Temp Taking and how to Take it by Andy Neill, A new Dawn for Stroke Patients by Nikki Abela, and Arrest Asthma by James Yates…
Emergency Casebook 4: It’s Cold Outside
This is the fifth in a series of Emergency Casebooks from the virtual hospital CFN General, with key learning points for staff working in an Emergency Department…
Hypothermia and Frostbite
This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an emergency department with the effects of hypothermia and frostbite…
A Systematic Review of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Non-Shockable Cardiac Arrest
Systematic review of randomised and non-randomised trials of therapeutic hypothermia for non-shockable cardiac arrest…