Time management tips
It's a common card to pick up in some paeds EDs - the yellow newborn. But whilst this can be an 'easy' one, such tiny babies can strike fear into the hearts of some!
Amy is a girl who has Down syndrome. She is not a Down's girl, or even a Down's
It's a phrase you'll come to know well. Especially, you'll find, if you're sitting at a certain desk or in a certain area.
This is the third in a series of Emergency Casebooks from the virtual hospital CFN General, with key learning points for staff working in an Emergency Department
This blog will serve to explore what we can do, within ED, to help ensure good patient flow, reduce overcrowding and improve patient experience.
In healthcare, we do love a label, and we rush to find one as soon as we possibly can.
Children (mainly), and even some adults, like to put a range of objects in any orifice they can find. Once they're in, they come to us in the ED to sort out whether they're really there, and how best to extract them.
This blog discusses why reflection is at the core of our learning.
Our general suggestions are written with the aim of reducing moral injury, compassion fatigue and burnout three different but linked conditions.
In this blog weve collated a few of our favourite EM-specific teaching ideas.
Here is a brief overview of three of our favourite and most satisfying PEM procedures. They epitomise ED practice - but can seem tricky to the PEM naive practitioner.