This month we discuss Thrombectomy and Lysis for stroke, HIV, and chat to the TERN Fellow…
Another angry drunk
It’s Friday night, a 19-year-old male who alleges he’s been assaulted is shouting / being aggressive in the waiting area. The triage nurses asks you to discharge him…
Lightning Learning
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?…
What do these waves tell me?
Watching the capnography waves……
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…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 7
Another week, another top 5! The team has sorted through thousands of papers…
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 6
This week’s flash update is the distilled outputs of a global output of more than 1,700 papers a week…
The COVID-19 Arrest
Train hard, fight easy: Managing a cardiopulmonary arrest in a patient with suspected COVID-19…
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…
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 Top 5 papers: Week 1
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 1…
Cardiac Arrest in Special Circumstances: Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening, multi-organ hypersensitivity reaction, typically of rapid onset.…
February 2020
This month we have Belfast CPD 2019 Tracheostomy | NICE Pneumonia | New in EM YEARS in pregnancy…
Everyday I’m suctioning, Tracheostomy emergency
Pre-alert; Adult male with long term front of neck access is en route in acute respiratory distress, what are your next steps?…
A Tired Heart
A 73-year-old gentleman with a background of heart failure, atrial fibrillation and severe aortic stenosis presents to your Emergency Department with shortness of breath…
Air in the Chest
Shortness of breath is a common occurance for COPD patients, and we’re used to putting them on non invasive ventilation. What happens when we can’t?…
Young and Breathless
Young, short of breath and hypoxic…what could be the underlying cause?…
Salicylic Stress
Paul, a 52 year old electrician, has been in your department for three and a half hours with a presenting complaint of abdominal pain…