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Blood pressure is a fickle beast and one that Im not sure many of us really understand. Were fabulous at treating it if its too low but when its too high, our practice is a bit more varied.
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Ear trauma is a common presentation to the Emergency Department. Whilst generally simple to manage, the consequences of ear trauma have the potential to impact patients day-to-day lives significantly
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If I mention scurvy to most people, they think of sea dogs, and Pirates, and archaic health complaints
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We become (mostly) emergency practitioners to reduce suffering of patients - not all suffering is pain, and both suffering and pain can be reduced by compassionate communication.
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Part 2 of our urological problems in men blog - focussing on catheterisation and problems associated with it.
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Urology presentations are fairly common to the emergency department, and we hope this just in time reminder will emphasise some of the key management points.
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I must admit, it felt a bit strange, taking a day off work as study leave to sit in my joggers in front of the laptop, but this is definitely The Way To Conference.
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Teaching is a huge part of emergency medicine. Whether you're preparing for the FRCEM OSCE or some shopfloor supervision of medical students, you need to be able to explain things to others that, for you, have now become second nature.
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Chest pain in children and young people is thankfully, in the most part, not too concerning. But explaining exactly what the cause of it is, can be tricky. And when do we need to worry?
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Concussion. It's hard to believe we didn't used to care much about it, and if your CT was normal, we were happy.
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Information overload is everywhere. With so many different methods of communicating, it is really easy for important facts to get lost in the noise. I think we all have a responsibility to make this better and easier, and I think we can make email work with a few changes
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Most patients arrive with c-spine immobilisation, now called "restriction of c-spine movement or ROCSM", in situ. If they haven't, and they need it, there's a few steps to take.