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An overview of sedation in the Emergency Department
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An overview of sedation in the Emergency Department

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Everyone asks about Framingham risk factors when taking a history for possible ACS but what significance do they actually hold?

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A look at the impact that a prolonged cause in CPR has on the associated outcome.

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A round up of some of the key papers that we've reviewed over the 12 months that HEFTEMCAST has been running

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Ultrasound is becoming a key part of Emergency Medicine. It's potential applications are vast and use throughout the UK is spreading fast. W...

Controversy exists over the transfusion thresholds and goals in patients with acute upper GI bleeds. In this episode we look at scoring syst...

A look at a risk stratifying tool for patients presenting with an undiagnosed collapse. Is this of use in this tricky and common presentatio...

We hear from David Raven, Emergency Medicine Consultant at The Heart of England Foundation Trust about the exciting new HECTOR Project; Hear...

What we need to know regarding prescribing these drugs in the ED

In acute severe asthma how much difference will magnesium make to our patients and what is the best route?

An evidenced based look at CT scanning in trauma.

A look at recent guidelines on the management of a failed intubation drill.

A look at this really important paper on the use of early goal directed therapy in septic shock. Is it time to change our practice?

Is there an easy and safe way to decrease the number of D-dimers we are requesting??

We all get encouraged to prescribe i.v. fluids as soon as a drunk patient pitches up to the ED but does it actually convert into a speedier...

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On initial glance the diagnosis or rule out of acute coronary syndrome is easy but the more you read the more complex it becomes. In fact wo...

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A look back at a practice changing publication from the Lancet on TXA in trauma.

Is cooling patients following cardiac arrest following the recent NEJM Targeted Temperature Management paper (TTM)?

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