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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 emergency medicine, too, report experiencing bullying.
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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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Coprophagy in Humans

A 45-year-old man develops methemoglobinemia after an incidence of eating his own faeces.
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Diagnosing Death

We’ve talked a lot in RCEMLearning blogs about how to recognise death in ED and how to break bad news, but we haven’t really focused on how to legally “declare” someone as dead, and complete the relevant paperwork. It is through researching updates to my trust’s policy, together with making sure our international medical graduates were aware of the UK rules, that this blog post was born.
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Risk and Safety – Part 2

What do we do if we are made aware of an incident? How do we investigate a serious incident and write a report? How do we share the learning?
  • SBA

A Crush Injury

A delayed presentation after trauma with an increasing joint swelling, what gives?
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Risk and Safety

We’ve written this blog to emphasise some of the key points around risk, highlight some common terminology, and point out some common misunderstandings.
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Vulnerable Migrants

In this article I use the word "vulnerable" to imply an individual at risk for an enhanced need of special care, support, or protection because of age, disability, or risk of abuse or neglect.
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A Crowding Challenge

Your department is crowded with multiple ambulances arriving, very few empty clinical spaces and multiple boarded patients due to exit block.
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Getting into the Flow:
Operational Efficiency in ED

Improved flow is the current golden bullet, the saviour of ED, in the NHS - the key to unlocking the issues with the health service in its current state of crisis. But how is flow achieved?
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Black & Blue: Inflicted (non-accidental) Injury

The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.
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Future-Proofing PEM

Where does PEM fit in with EM? Children make up about 25-30% of attendances to mixed EDs nationally, so all EM consultants must possess at least basic paediatric skills.

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