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This blog starts to explore workplace culture. What is culture? Why is culture so hard to change? What can I do about it?
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Cardiac arrest in pregnancy is a potential presentation to the emergency department. If it happens, you are likely to be cognitively overloaded.
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In the past, paediatric lacerations requiring sutures often required admission and a general anaesthetic for wound closure. This blog looks at how we can provide timely, cost effective and acceptable management in the ED that avoids this paradigm.
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You've just arrived for your first ED shift, excited to be allocated to resus. The red phone rings. A 45-year-old female, amitriptyline overdose, P120, BP85/45, GCS 5, ETA 5 minutes.
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As emergency medicine clinicians youll be used to patients with behaviours that are really challenging. Did you know that theres an actual definition of this?
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Once you have heard the classic croupy cough, you wont forget it.
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Febrile children compete for the most common non-traumatic paediatric presentation in the ED, causing concern for parents worldwide. Your mission: to find the source.
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In this blog, we've collated all our infographics, and some pictures, around mental health in the ED. We hope that the pictures will spark your curiosity, and you'll delve further into the original resource for further learning.
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Early recognition and treatment of sepsis in children is crucial as progression to organ failure and shock is often very rapid.
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All morning shifts start with handover, and I think that getting handover right sets the tone for the rest of the day.
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Theres a lot of tips out there for surviving as a new doctor, or as an old doctor. The transition from SHO to SpR is something that many are ready for, and many have picked up their own tips for.
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One of the most common reasons for newborns to be sent in to the ED for assessment is weight loss.
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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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Patients with head injuries are the most common type of trauma seen in the Emergency Department and can represent up to 10% of all presentations.
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Walk into any Emergency Department in the country and you are bound to find at least one child waiting to be seen with a head injury.
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Many of us in the UK EM will have gone most of our careers without seeing any confirmed cases of measles. Vaccination rates have been dropping though, so measles is back in our departments and has to be in our differential diagnosis list.
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Here are a few reminders and updates on the basics of transfusion - Part 2.
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Transfusion may seem simple, but here are a few reminders and updates on the basics of transfusion starting with the transfusion ten commandments.
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This blog looks at RSI from the eyes of the assistant - this might be the resus nurse, the ED FY2, or a non-airway trained ED registrar. Please send your thoughts, feedback and comments.
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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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The aim of this blog is to review management of adult medical cardiac arrests and look at interventions beyond the ALS algorithm.
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The examples of posters included in this blog should give you some food for thought about the variety of end projects you can achieve.