A few considerations for why ED practitioners should all be comfortable at performing speculum examinations and bimanual examinations.
This blog considers how to perform an I&D in the ED and how those familiar with the procedure might set up practical training sessions.
What happens if your personality is disordered or disrupted by psychiatric illness? How can your self then be accurately discerned from your personality disorder? Where does the condition end and you begin?
This blog article aims to consolidate several resources and anecdotal practice around functional seizures.
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.
To follow on from the RCEM Learning blog on Bullying in the ED we will move on to an unwanted behaviour that, while it shares some characteristics with bullying, is distinct.
The ED often plays a vital role in making the first diagnosis of cancer.
Our curriculum mentions pacing, and we all think that we know all about that as weve got ALS right? Some of our brief discussions on twitter highlighted that pacing can be more complicated than ALS implies, and actually isnt very common in ED.
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We thought we'd create this mini summary of the resources we've found here and elsewhere to enable you to get the background to proficiently deliver and teach emergency medicine skills.
The biggest cause of spinal injuries in children is road traffic collisions, particularly those with high speed, a rollover or an ejection from the vehicle, with second place going to falls in younger children and sporting injuries in older children.
Why digoxin? Digoxin has a narrow therapeutic index and digoxin toxicity can be a life-threatening condition.