A 79-year-old male was admitted to the Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) following a fall. Was he kept safe?…
An asylum seeker presents to the ED with a chronic headache prompting questions of finance, logistics and follow up from the staff.…
Learn more about the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACS) and their role managing in domestic abuse.…
12% of ED attendances are related to domestic abuse. How will you identify & manage these cases?…
Communicating with little people?…
12% of ED attendances are related to domestic abuse. ED physicians are in a unique position to identify these cases.…
Children can be distracting, but how can we also distract them?…
DNA CPR confuses many but is a very important area to get right.…
Explore your understanding further of how hypnosis can help in Emergency Medicine…
Are inequalities part of our every day work, and what can we do about them?…
This session will cover the principal modalities used in pre-hospital communication.…
This session will cover the principal modalities used in pre-hospital communication…
Visiting hospital can be scary at any age. Facilitating a positive hospital experience for children is important because many of them will require further attendances and treatments in their lifetime.…
When I found out I was pregnant, the aspect I was most surprised about was how tired I was. At 6 weeks growing something the size of a blackcurrant inside of me I would come home from every shift exha…
This month Andrew and Graham discuss frequent attenders…
Since February 2020, the UK has seen over 145,000 hospital admissions with COVID-19 and over 42,000 deaths. To say this pandemic has reeked havoc on the NHS is an understatement.…
Two new ST1 emergency medicine trainees, who recently started academic clinical fellowships (ACFs) in emergency medicine in Cambridge and Manchester, share their perspectives on beginning a career in …
Principles of consent in view of recent case law…
A patient with acute behavioural disturbance is proving very hard to manage, you need to gain control but by what means and what powers do you have to achieve this?…
EM physicians need to be decision makers, quick thinkers and risk balancers. This is what we are good at. In fact, many will tell you that the purpose of the PEM rotation is to learn to spot the sick …
