JC: Is there any point teaching paramedics? St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed OK, so it’s a provocative title, but it reflects my thoughts when I first saw this paper on teaching paramedics and in particular when I saw the...
View ArticleJC: PARAMEDIC trial m-CPR at St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed In some ways you might be forgiven for thinking that 2014 was a bit disappointing in terms of EBM. A number of clinical trials that I’ve been looking...
View ArticleJC: Self extrication vs. assisted extrication. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed The last 2 years have seen the agreed wisdom of spinal immobilisation challenged. We have seen a paradigm shift in our attitude towards the use of cervical...
View ArticleLondon Trauma Conference #LTC2015 – Day Two
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Hello again from the London Trauma Conference! If you haven’t listened to the day one podcast yet, catch up here. We’ve managed to catch up with a couple...
View ArticleLondon Trauma Conference #LTC2015 – Day Three
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed London Trauma Conference review with St.Emlyn's ECMO REBOA prehospital care and air ambulance work The post London Trauma Conference #LTC2015 – Day Three...
View ArticleJC. Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia: The RINSE trial. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This week we look at the RINSE trial1, a trial examining the prehospital use of hypothermia in post cardiac arrest patients. Therapeutic hypothermia has had a...
View ArticleAcid Attacks
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed A short post…but a relevant one. We are interested in other perspectives here. Please post comments below. Firstly – Don’t use a blog like this to dictate...
View ArticleAir Zermatt, Ashley Liebig, SMACC and St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed En route to #dasMACC this year, I had the incredible opportunity to visit colleagues at Air Zermatt (@airzermatt) in Switzerland. With an exceptional view of...
View Article101 Reflective Lessons from a Year with Sydney HEMS. Part Six: Self Care
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This post, detailing my reflections on self care in clinical retrieval medicine, is the sixth in a series recording my reflections on the twelve months I spent...
View ArticleMass Casualty Incidents: Lessons from AAST. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Mass Casualty Incidents: What can we (re)learn? This year, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma held its Annual Meeting in Baltimore – a city I...
View Article104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Firstly, the title of this post is not a typo. When I collated the reflective lessons from my series of Sydney HEMS blog posts I realised there were actually...
View Article“To Protect and Serve…and Drop Off”. Penetrating Trauma in Philadelphia. St...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Penetrating trauma is a rising problem on both sides of the Atlantic – just tune into any of the major news channels to see the effect. Its increasing burden on...
View ArticleAir Zermatt, Ashley Liebig, SMACC and St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed En route to #dasMACC this year, I had the incredible opportunity to visit colleagues at Air Zermatt (@airzermatt) in Switzerland. With an exceptional view of...
View Article101 Reflective Lessons from a Year with Sydney HEMS. Part Six: Self Care
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This post, detailing my reflections on self care in clinical retrieval medicine, is the sixth in a series recording my reflections on the twelve months I spent...
View ArticleMass Casualty Incidents: Lessons from AAST. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Mass Casualty Incidents: What can we (re)learn? This year, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma held its Annual Meeting in Baltimore – a city I...
View Article104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Firstly, the title of this post is not a typo. When I collated the reflective lessons from my series of Sydney HEMS blog posts I realised there were actually...
View Article“To Protect and Serve…and Drop Off”. Penetrating Trauma in Philadelphia. St...
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Penetrating trauma is a rising problem on both sides of the Atlantic – just tune into any of the major news channels to see the effect. Its increasing burden on...
View ArticlePodcast: September 2018 round up of the St Emlyn’s blog
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Here’s the September podcast round up of the St Emlyn’s blog. For some reason this did not get published back in 2018, so here it is now 🙂 The following blogs...
View ArticleThe Journey That Matters: Dr. Clare Richmond at #stemlynsLIVE
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This podcast and presentation was recorded at the St Emlyn’s LIVE conference in Manchester 2018. In this presentation Clare takes us through the rationale,...
View ArticleProlonged Field Care…in the ED. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed The practice of military emergency medicine and civilian emergency medicine frequently overlap, often in a symbiotic relationship1,2. The hard-won lessons from...
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