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The Forgotten Tribe

This blog presents a whistle stop tour of adolescent medicine as it applies to the ED. It discusses some hints and tips on how to improve the ED experience for adolescents whilst also increasing your confidence in supporting the needs of this sometimes tricky age group.
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Bullying in the ED

Bullying is something that an unacceptably high number of healthcare workers will experience. Despite priding itself in being a friendly specialty with a flattened hierarchy, those working in emergency medicine, too, report experiencing bullying.
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Top Tips for Breastfeeding Parents in the Adult ED

Top Tips for Breastfeeding Parents in the Adult ED
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Communication in Dementia and Delirium

This is a section on communication skills that we have updated and reprinted from our medical student iBook.
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W is for Winter.. and Wheeze: Paediatric Acute Asthma

Winter is upon us, and the wheezers are slowly filling our waiting areas
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Back Pain Advice – Do you know what to say?

Acute back pain is something that we see fairly often in the emergency department
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Talking to Teens: Top Tips

In this blog we will talk about how to overcome barriers, which will help you build trust with and get the information you need from the patient to treat them and keep them safe, with some great insights from young people working with Redthread.
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Frailty Associated Pneumonia

Is it time to ditch Aspiration Pneumonia and replace it with Frailty Associated Pneumonia?
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The Importance of Debrief

This was originally published as part of the medical student iBook. Weve reproduced it here with some additions as we think its great, and as much as this is written from a medical student perspective, it could be a new FY2 or a new nurse - or an old hand.
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Coughing, Wheezy and Stridulous Children

Children with noisy or difficult breathing often present to the Emergency Department (ED). The acuity of these patients varies, but any of the conditions that cause respiratory symptoms can be life threatening
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Metabolic Babies in the ED.. Easy As 1.. 2.. 3

Inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) are disorders of chemical pathways. These diseases led to dangerous deficiencies or excesses of chemicals.
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Delivering Bad News

This blog aims to introduce some concepts around bad or difficult news, link to some structures for delivering bad news, and hopefully stimulate some further thoughts and discussions.