🔥Appendicitis and CT scans🔥

Is your practice evidence-based, or just based on previous difficult cases? The new RIFT-2 paper is published today in impact-surgery.com

Here is why I CT scan nearly every patient with a medium/high risk of appendicitis 🧵:…

Join us to follow the patient journey of an older aged patient living with frailty, presenting to the ED with a fall, considering:
Trauma assessment
Possible traumatic injuries by body systems
Use of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
End of life care
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Dear Adrian
You're doing a brilliant job of working out the perplexities of dying & grief.
All the stuff you wish you'd known, you'd have known in the days when death was more familiar.
You're not 'banging on,' but reminding us.
Thank you.
Shelagh Fogarty
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📣 Calling all #paramedics 🇬🇧

This is your (last!) chance to be part of the first anthology of stories that capture the reality of what it is to be a paramedic, providing a moving and honest insight into one of the most demanding, and rewarding, roles within the UK 📚

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Metaanalysis for early seizure prophylaxis mild to moderate TBI

It reduces risk, but NNT 167

Dad spent two of the last days of his life alone and distressed in A&E – for no good reason. This insanity must stop | Adrian Chiles theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This month Dr Anne Weaver celebrates her 20th anniversary working for London’s Air Ambulance.

Dr. Anne Weaver isn't just one of the UK's foremost female pre-hospital care doctors, but a trailblazer in her field, serving as an inspiration for many.

There's been a bit of recent interest in long Emergency Department stays and risk of mortality. NHSE and DHSC have been trying to reduce the problems in Emergency Department with their Recovery Plan and the recently released Planning Guidance. So how's it going? a 🧵

Nat Hold fast - these courses on their way! PHNLS I believe had its first run in the last few months, and OHALS/OHILS are due to start trial runs soon!

Are you are physio / PT caring for patients with blunt chest trauma? ACPRC
Our new CWIS global survey is now live, exploring follow-up services for patients discharged from hospital. Please help inform us about current practice.
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April Paper Podcast

•RCT; wet clothes removal, is there a difference in rewarming rates?
•Morphine vs ibuprofen + paracetamol for fractures
•ETCO2 & mortality in suspected severe TBI

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TheResusRoom.co.uk #FOAMed

Song, JX., Wu, JX., Zhong, H. et al. Therapeutic efficacy of tranexamic acid on traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 32, 18 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s13049…

Get involved in Warwick medical School’s pre-hospital emergency medicine conference!! #phem #phem tec #emergencymed icine #emergencymed
#emergencymed icine conference #conference #prehospital #warwickmedicalschool

How well do you understand pelvic x-ray interpretation?

Can you spot the injury on this x-ray?

Share your answer as a reply and we'll post the full answer tomorrow.

This event goes beyond just the clinical aspects and concentrates on the clinicians delivering
Explore:
🚨A CEO’s perspective on running a PHEM unit or charity
🚨Operational aspects to PHEM Challenges
🚨Community EM
🚨DEI in PHEM
Enhance your PHEM care now-bit.ly/3H5QkyO

Visit the FPHC website to find out more!
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Latest Clinical Updates for JRCALC published March 2024 classprofessional.co.uk/latest-clinica…

🚨NEW Position Statement on Cauda Equina Syndrome

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Not long to go now, full programme below…

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#retrieval2024

We would like people with experience of helping during a cardiac arrest to take part in our research: an interview exploring attitudes about using drones to deliver defibrillators.

Interested? Contact Dr Celia Bernstein (senior research fellow) at [email protected]