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Public Health in the Emergency Department Series #3

This is the third of our public health series blogs. Keep your eyes peeled for more public health topics to follow in future blogs.
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Public Health in the Emergency Department Series #2

This is the second blog in our public health series. Keep your eyes peeled for more public health goodness to follow in future blogs.
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Public Health in the Emergency Department Series #1

This is the first of our public health series blogs. Keep your eyes peeled for a few more public health topics over the next few weeks.
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Top Ten Tips for Turning Your ED Green

Starting from scratch to turn your ED green is a challenge. When I took on the sustainability lead in our department recently, it took me a few months to work out where to start and how to make things change. I thought it would be useful to share some of the things I have learned along the way.
  • Blog

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?
  • Blog

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.
  • Blog

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.
  • Blog

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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • Blog

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.
  • Reference

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

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
  • Podcast

EMJ December 2020

Noel discusses Colles type distal radial fractures undergoing manipulation in the ED A multicentre observational cohort study
  • Podcast

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
  • Podcast

EMJ June 2020

This month Noel talks to Dr.Anju menon about glucose as an additional parameter in NEWS score
  • Podcast

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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Medical Gases in ED

Medical gases are something used every day in the emergency setting, both pre-hospital and in-hospital, whether it be oxygen, medical air, or nitrous oxide. Each of these gases have their part to play in the emergency setting.

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