Anatomy for Emergency Medicine 026: Basic Anatomy of Chest Trauma
This is a screencast of a recent lecture I gave to some first year med students. It’s mainly to give the students some clinical info to keep their regular anatomy teaching relevant. It’s not designed to be a comprehensive intro to trauma in any way. It’s longer than the usual podcasts so I’ve split into [...]
Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Guidelines for Ireland
I mentioned these on Twitter a while back but I thought they deserved a little plug. All hospitals have pretty good policies and procedures about what to do when a staff member gets a needlestick injury. A lot of these patients in the systems I’ve worked in come to the ED out of hours. It’s [...]
Full Capacity Protocols
[image via NetDance on Flickr. CC License] Hospitals are busy places. We have no space, no beds, no staff and inevitably less money to make this all happen. This is the situation we have. We’re fairly pragmatic folks so we find ways to manage the work more efficiently and try and do more as an [...]
EM docs are more burnt out than most but none of us are great…
The night shift insomnia that leaves me with about 4 hrs sleep a day has given me the chance to catch up with a bit of reading so here’s a paper for you. This got a very amount of Twitter attention when it came out as it was a bit of a headline grabber: Shanafelt, [...]
EMJ Publication: Impact of Social Media at ICEM2012
ICEM 2012 was a big deal for me. Great craic, the coining of the term FOAM, meeting lots of great EPs and learning a whole ton of good stuff. Twitter was a big thing at the conference and a few of us, (myself, Cadogan and John Cronin) had the idea of documenting the use of [...]
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