So no doubt now we’re approaching winter your ED will be under pressure and both your team and the hospital will be looking for strategies to reduce crowding and most importantly improve care

So you’re in the Emergency Department when a medical alert arrives. He’s tachypnoeic, tachycardic and visibly cyanotic with saturations of 75% on room air. You start to reach for the high flow oxygen but there’s a voice in your head saying “STOP! What about his hypoxic drive”!

For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast.

This talk hopes to explore how we make decisions in the ED, why it’s often difficult in a time poor, information light setting and gives some strategies for how we might analyse and improve our performance.

For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast.

For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast.

For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast.

For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast.

In addition to being a Consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon, Dr Brohi is also a Professor in Trauma Sciences and the founder of Trauma.org. He spoke to us on the subject of critical bleeding in trauma patients.

September 2015 brought us the superb RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Manchester. Rick Body and the Organising Committee did a superb job of providing us with 3 days of education, entertainment and networking.

For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast.

For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcast.

What does the presence of dipstick haematuria mean to you in the context of blunt abdominal trauma? This podcast investigates a recent paper on the topic and discusses its utility.

When you assess your patient you need to take a good focussed history, make a thorough examination focussing on evidence of respiratory failure/distress and make an assessment to the hydration status of the child, whilst thinking about and taking steps to discount other diagnoses such as pneumonia and Viral Wheeze.

Andy’s 4th podcast on the eye

It is most useful in the non-shockable side of the algorithm and can be an aid when considering the 4 Hs and the 4 Ts of the ALS Algorithm

Here’s what went on at the fantastic RCEM ’15 Annual Conference in Manchester on the final day

Here’s what went on at the fantastic RCEM ’15 Annual Conference in Manchester on Day 2

Here’s what went on at the fantastic RCEM ’15 Annual Conference in Manchester on Day 1

Urine testing potentially isn’t the most glamorous of topics but it’s an area which there’s a HUGE scope for us improving on.

TCA overdose an uncommon presentation to the Emergency Department. TCA overdoses can however be fatal.

We all feel the pressure when managing the feverish child. Differentiating simple viral illness from Serious Bacterial Infection can be challenging in the Emergency Department and requires good clinical acumen.

Traumatic Cardiac arrest is a stressful and time critical presentation to the ED. You need to have a solid structure in your mind for how to deal with it in a safe and effective manner.

The Returning Traveller is designed to give junior ED clinicians the tools needed to safely manage these patients who attend more often – and more unwell – than we think.

As Emergency Medicine continues to grow as a specialty, newer fields are coming in to our practice on a more regular basis.