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Bed blocked again, what can we do!
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Human Factors

Human Factors is a term that’s often used when talking about events that happen in the ED, and many people, including us, had a lack of awareness of the full scope of human factors, and how it applies to emergency medicine.
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Serious Untoward Incidents

The patient is now on ITU, having had a 2 hour delay because of errors.
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Inflicted (non-accidental) Injury

The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.
  • Clinical Case

Heading for trouble

A 14-year-old boy has been brought to the ED with a headache that has been ongoing for the last few days.
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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.
  • Podcast

EMJ Podcast October 2022

This month Susie and Rajesh talk about Emergency Physicians experience of stress during resuscitation and strategies for mitigating the effects of stress on performance.
  • Clinical Case

Who decided to dip this child’s urine?

A 12-year-old girl is brought to your ED with abdominal pain and a urine dip is done.
  • SBA

Organ Donation & Changes in the Law

Preparing for exams and trying to find an SBA on organ donation? The law around organ donation has changed; refresh your knowledge with this SBA.
  • SAQ

Radiology Updates for Imaging in Paediatric Major Trauma

Struggling to negotiate CT imaging requests for your paediatric patients? Let the guiding principles of ALARA come to your rescue!
  • Clinical Case

CDU: Safety or Saving?

A 79-year-old male was admitted to the Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) following a fall. Was he kept safe?
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EmbRACE: What we learnt from starting an anti-racism campaign

In May 2021, as we emerged from the second wave of Covid in the UK, we felt the time was right to make a change. Covid had highlighted significant racial health inequalities.
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An Introduction to Human Factors and Patient Safety

This session will explain what is meant by the term Human Factors and describe how Human Factors affect Patient Safety.
  • Learning Session

An Introduction to Human Factors and Patient Safety

This session will explain what is meant by the term Human Factors and describe how Human Factors affect Patient Safety.
  • Blog

Preparing for a Bronchiolitis Epidemic

Many accused hospitals and medics of not acting quickly enough to prepare for Covid19, and we're not going to let that happen for the muted bronchiolitis epidemic. Using all we've learnt from Covid, and all we know about childhood respiratory illnesses, here are a few suggestions to help you prepare.
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Hypnosis and EM

If we told you we knew of a medical practice that’s been around since the 18th century, with a strong evidence base, that can be utilised by any emergency physician, for the majority of patients (and colleagues), that’s free to deliver, costing only time, you’d probably think we were deluded. We're not... it's hypnosis.
  • Learning Session

Critical Appraisal: Appraising a Treatment, Hand Lacerations

This session deals with the critical appraisal of a key randomised controlled trial. The study concerns two treatments for the management of hand lacerations
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EMJ December 2020

Noel discusses Colles type distal radial fractures undergoing manipulation in the ED A multicentre observational cohort study
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EMJ September 2020

This month we discuss the need for recovery with Laura Cottey and Graham Blair
  • Induction Module

The ED Rota… and rest! – Induction

You are about to embark on one of the most challenging rotas of your career. I mean, let’s be honest, for many of you, you will consider this the worst rota of your career
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EMJ June 2020

This month Noel talks to Dr.Anju menon about glucose as an additional parameter in NEWS score
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EMJ March 2020 – Key occupational stressors in the ED

Key occupational stressors in the ED: an international comparison
  • Breaking Evidence

Breaking Evidence: The Elizabeth Molyneux prize 2019

Each year at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) Annual Scientific Conference, the prestigious Elizabeth Molyneux Prize is awarded. The prize, named in honour of Professor Elizabeth Molyneux, recognises outstanding work in the field of Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM).
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TAKE STOCK – Hot Debrief

Medical student Max Sugarman tells RCEMLearning what triggered him to work on a hot debrief tool and how he went about implementing it.

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