You have just been informed that there is a patient in Resus who has a subdural haematoma…
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?…
An asylum seeker presents to the Emergency Department with a chronic headache prompting questions of finance, logistics and follow up from the staff.…
79 year old male was admitted to the Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) unit following a fall. Was he kept safe?…
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 …
Emergency Medicine is tough. How does working in the ED affect you? Do you often feel tired following a shift or on your days off?…
Do you know what is going on with you, and around you? Have you been in a situation where there are nine poorly patients in the resuscitation room, and you are the only Clinician looking after them?…
Having successfully landed an ST4 training post, I start my first job in a small, yet busy, rural ED in Merseyside. I am excited and enthusiastic about this new training job and I enjoy exchanging sto…
This session will cover the principal modalities used in pre-hospital communication…
As many of us are preparing our portfolios for ARCP or revalidation, RCEM’s Head of e-learning, Chris Walsh, talks us through why reflection is at the core of our learning.…
I consider myself lucky- I’ve had some excellent supervisors. So good, that they made the bad ones feel even worse.…
In an era of increasing bureaucracy, never ending targets, and spiralling demand on a background of chronic underfunding, the prevailing cynicism of the medical profession might be understood…
Most of the resources available on time management are written for administrators who need to learn to inbox zero” and to say no…
The idea of normalisation of deviance is the brainchild of an American sociologist, Diane Vaughan, who thought that essentially people become used to accepting deviant behaviour as normal practice, th…
report errors at an early stage so that lessons can be learned quickly,…
An emergency medicine consultant, a senior surgical trainee, and a salaried GP sat in a bar…
So no doubt now were approaching winter your ED will be under pressure and both your team and the hospital will be looking for strategies to reduce crowding and most importantly improve care…
For those of you who werent able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month well be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast…
In this article, we’ll look at a typical major incident plan and what it contains…
