Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine part 3: Is Primum non nocere timeless...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed If you haven’t been following this series, you can also find part 1 and part 2 on the blog. Part 3: Primum, non nocere When I was a green young House Officer...
View ArticleEvery Breath You Take – An Introduction to the Breathless Patient in the ED
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Breathless patients are a challenge in the ED. Shortness of breath can be a frightening presenting complaint for both patients and doctors. As always, think...
View ArticleEthical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine 4: The ethics of triage
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed It’s been a while since we published our last ‘Ethical Dilemmas’ post at St. Emlyn’s. Hopefully you’ve already seen the other posts in this series but, if not,...
View ArticleMajor incident planning at the 14th ACCS meeting. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This week I am talking in Manchester at the 14th Annual Critical Care Symposium. This is an amazing meeting organised by the legendary Dr Chithambaram Veerappan,...
View ArticleTriage: The sorting hat of Emergency medicine, but what are we really...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed The word “Triage” comes from French roots, the origin word “trier” meaning “to sort”.1 This is a process vital to emergency medicine. The idea was born on the...
View ArticleAPLS weight estimation – don’t do it (well almost never). St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed I’m an APLS instructor & course director and have contributed various bits and bobs over the years and it’s a great course. I’d go further and say that it’s...
View ArticleEthical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine Part 1
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Emergency Medicine is a specialty that you may not think involves a lot of ethical dilemmas. The obvious issues like abortion, euthanasia and reproductive...
View ArticleEthical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine Part 2
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Last week we published our first ‘Ethical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine’ post, complete with a hypothetical scenario that hopefully got you thinking! I was...
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