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  • Clinical Case

End of life care in ED

A 45-year-old female with end-stage COPD presents with acute breathlessness and drowsiness. Despite optimized medical management and prior discussions on care preferences, she declines interventions and has died shortly after admission.
  • Podcast

December 2024

This month we have: Surgery for Haemorrhagic Stroke | RCEM Best Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain | Laura Howard and Gregory Yates - BestBETs | New Online
  • Guideline

Management of Pain in Adults – Guideline

This guideline sets out the standards for timeliness of provision of analgesia and provides an approach to the delivery of analgesia for adult patients presenting to the ED.
  • Learning Session

Management of Post-Arrest Patients Including Prognostication

This module focusses on the emergency department care of patients post-cardiac arrest i.e. after the return of spontaneous circulation.
  • Reference

Management of Post-Arrest Patients Including Prognostication

This session focusses on the emergency department care of patients post-cardiac arrest i.e. after the return of spontaneous circulation.
  • Podcast

December 2023

This month we have a brand new Co-host, Liz Farah. And the topics on discussion are Mortality in older patients boarding overnight in the ED, Hypertension in the ED and Cauda Equina Syndrome, Opioids for back pain & New Online
  • Podcast

EMJ Podcast October 2023

This month we discuss: 'You may think that the consultants are great, and they know everything, but they don't', And then a systematic review called 'Why is pain management so difficult in the ED.'
  • Blog

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.
  • Reference

Pain Management in Adult Patients

This session covers the pathophysiology of pain, the use of pain assessment tools, typical analgesic agents used in the ED.
  • Learning Session

Pain Management in Adult Patients

This session covers the pathophysiology of pain, the use of pain assessment tools and typical analgesic agents used in the ED.
  • Learning Session

The Dying Patient

This learning session explores how to recognise patient trajectories as they approach the end of their lives, as well as the diagnosis of dying.
  • Reference

The Dying Patient

This session explores how to recognise patient trajectories as they approach the end of their lives, as well as the diagnosis of dying.
  • Podcast

November 2022

This month we discuss IV Paracetamol, Sedation, Highlights from the Thames Valley Cardiac Arrest Symposium & New online material from RCEMLearning.
  • Podcast

EMJ Podcast August 2022

This month Noel and Stephen discuss paediatric fractures.
  • Podcast

EMJ May 2020

Amy and Susie discuss end of life care
  • Blog

Dying Matters in the ED

Working in the ED probably exposes us to a considerable amount of death and dying. From the unexpected cardiac arrest or trauma patient, through to the expected death of a patient with a terminal prognosis
  • Podcast

April 2020

This month we have COVID Discussion | Debriefing post traumatic event | Talking bout dying in the ED | COVID19 Ventilation
  • Blog

Coronavirus, (COVID19) tips and resources

RCEMLearning Coronavirus, COVID19, tips and resources
  • Blog, Critical Care

Medical Emergencies

We all work in the Emergency Department because we think there’s going to be lots of “emergencies”
  • Blog

Palliative Care in the ED

A patient attends majors, with sepsis. You overhear someone saying “they’re palliative care, so we don’t need to do anything

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