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Children are often found to have a heart murmur when seen in the Emergency Department, but when does a heart murmur actually mean something?
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This blog discusses the preparation, assessment and management of the patients presenting with maxillofacial injuries.
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Abdominal pain is a common presentation in paediatrics-increasing as the child gets older. Hopefully, this blog will serve as a guide of what to look for, when to refer and when to worry!
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Poor old lumbar spine it does a lot of the heavy lifting for the body but probably doesnt get anywhere near the attention of the cervical spine when it comes to trauma.
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Advances in neonatal care have resulted in more ex-prems being discharged into the community, and these fragile neonates tend to be frequent fliers.
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The legal aspects of Emergency Medicine can be difficult and often a trainee spends less time reading about these, unless a specific situation arises in work.
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Class A drug in the UK - illegal to possess, give away or sell. Possession can be punished with 7 years in jail.
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An emergency medicine consultant, a senior surgical trainee, and a salaried GP sat in a bar.
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Its happening again. Paediatrics - moving from one infectious disease to the next. It feels like we are only just peeling down the posters from the measles outbreak, when we are putting up the pertussis one.
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Headaches are one of the most common presentations to the ED and may be primary or secondary. We want to help you differentiate between those benign ones that just require simple analgesia and reassurance, and those that require further investigation.
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This blog starts to explore workplace culture. What is culture? Why is culture so hard to change? What can I do about it?