Is severe chest pain more likely to be a heart attack?
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Have you ever heard this sort of conversation in your ED? Junior ED doc: Can I run my patient by you, please? Senior ED doc: Sure Junior: I have a 40...
View ArticleGet the NOAC Knowhow: Novel Oral Anticoagulants Part 1
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Where would we be without warfarin? The good old rat poison has served us brilliantly for decades, allowing us to anticoagulate patients to treat and...
View ArticleThe MACS rule: a new user-friendly version
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed This blog post is based on a paper we’ve just had published in the Emergency Medicine Journal entitled: ‘The Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS)...
View ArticleTaking a sexual history in ED
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Emergency physicians often feel that taking a sexual history in EDs is something medical school and specialty training have not prepared them very well...
View ArticleAll you need to know about CHEMSEX but never dared to ask… St.Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed CHEMSEX and public health issues for the emergency department and physician. The post All you need to know about CHEMSEX but never dared to ask… St.Emlyn’s...
View ArticleGetting your chest pain evaluation right: #UMECS16
St.Emlyn's - Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed Last week, while Iain was giving a keynote lecture in Austria, I was also heading for distant shores to speak about chest pain evaluation at a special...
View ArticleIcatibant for ACE inhibitor induced angioedema
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Patients presenting to the ED are tending to get older, have more co-morbidities and take more medications. As this happens, in my experience we seem to see more...
View ArticleTroponin: more than a marker of infarction?
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed As I’m writing this, I’m travelling back from an excellent conference in London. The BioRemarkable Symposium was sponsored by a company called Singulex. The...
View ArticleIs cMyC the new troponin?
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Anyone who reads the news is likely to have seen the recent paper in Circulation evaluating a new biomarker of acute coronary syndromes: cardiac myosin binding...
View Article#badEMfest18 Day 1. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Last week the St Emlyn’s team in the form of Janos Baombe, Natalie May, Ross Fisher and myself travelled to Greyton for the very first #badEMfest18. This is a...
View ArticleSt Emlyn’s April 2018 blog and podcast round up.
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Simon and Iain talk through what the team has been up to in April. All the blogs should be on the website and of course you can subscribe to the podcast via...
View ArticleIcatibant for ACE inhibitor induced angioedema
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Patients presenting to the ED are tending to get older, have more co-morbidities and take more medications. As this happens, in my experience we seem to see more...
View ArticleTroponin: more than a marker of infarction?
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed As I’m writing this, I’m travelling back from an excellent conference in London. The BioRemarkable Symposium was sponsored by a company called Singulex. The...
View ArticleIs cMyC the new troponin?
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Anyone who reads the news is likely to have seen the recent paper in Circulation evaluating a new biomarker of acute coronary syndromes: cardiac myosin binding...
View Article#badEMfest18 Day 1. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Last week the St Emlyn’s team in the form of Janos Baombe, Natalie May, Ross Fisher and myself travelled to Greyton for the very first #badEMfest18. This is a...
View ArticleSt Emlyn’s April 2018 blog and podcast round up.
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Simon and Iain talk through what the team has been up to in April. All the blogs should be on the website and of course you can subscribe to the podcast via...
View ArticlePEP, PrEP and all things HIV. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed On the 1st December we marked world AIDS Day. This day was one of the first ever global health days and was introduced to increase awareness of the issue of HIV...
View ArticleJC: Taking the PESIT – How Common is PE Among ED Patients with Syncope?
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed You might remember the tremendous stink around PE prevalence caused by the outcomes of the Pulmonary Embolism in Syncope Italian Trial (PESIT)1 from when it was...
View ArticleAdult Congenital Heart Disease in the ED. St Emlyn’s
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Virchester is recognised as a specialist centre for patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). This is an interesting and occasionally challenging...
View ArticlePulmonary embolism, ambulatory care and the goddess of the hunt
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This post covers a talk I was asked to give at the recent RCEM CPD conference in Belfast. A great event, and well hosted in spite of the LOC chair becoming...
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