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Abdominal Pain. Mike Clancy. SEMEP
More goodness from the Southampton Emergency Medicine Education Project Mike Clancy on abdominal pain. Mike is the President of the UK College of Emergency Medicine @CEMpresident (wish I’d know this before I publicly disagreed with him on a few points) Video: Audio: Or you can download audio here (right-click) or A few points of [...]
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Shortness of Breath. Iain Beardsell. SEMEP
From the wonderful people at the Southampton Emergency Medicine Education Project Video: Audio: or download audio here (right click) or A few things we do differently Down Under are that we seldom do ABGs on COPDs, and almost never on asthmatics. A VBG can tell you whether a CO2 is high, low or about normal [...]
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Syncope. Beardsell. SEMEP
More goodness from the Southamptom Emergency Medicine Education Project Video: Audio: or download (right-click) here or Key points (plus some extras from me) History: Previous episodes Family history of sudden death Hx of cardiac disease – more likely to have a dysrhythmia Syncope during exercise Witnessed convulsion (but may occur with syncope) Standing vs lying [...]
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Toxicology for PGY1+2
Toxicology pgy 1+2 2013 from chricres Image from http://www.pharmtox.utoronto.ca/programs/cpbt.htm
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Oligoanalgesia
An 8-year-old came into ED with a fractured femur from a school rugby practice. He was about to be sent to the ward with a Sagar Splint on his leg with no traction on it, no femoral nerve block and no opioid charted. One of our nurses correctly pointed out that we are happy to [...]
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Why I don’t like Digoxin
A 78-year-old woman came to ED with nausea, vomiting and a headache. It seemed to have started during her recent admission to hospital with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. To be fair to the physicians, they had tried her on decent doses of metoprolol and diltiazem and hadn’t been able to get her rate under control. They [...]
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Why Amal Mattu doesn’t like amiodarone.
Amal Mattu is Associate Professor; Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He is the go-to-guy on all things ECG for emergency medicine in the USA, and speaks at all the big conferences. He also replies to emails same day! Here is what he has to say about amiodarone. [...]
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Why I don’t like amiodarone
Audio There was an emergency call to CCU. A 70-year-old gentleman was in CCU being treated for renal failure secondary to angiography to investigate the cause of his dilated cardiomyopathy. He had extensive coronary artery disease but no revascularisation was performed. While eating dinner he went into this rhythm – with no symptoms. He was [...]
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Sepsis – the basics. Dr Kiuber. SEMEP
The next key topic for new ED docs is sepsis. So here is another short talk kindly donated by the Southampton Medical Education Project. Video: Play audio: Download audio here (right-click to save) or here
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Headache. Sarah Robinson. Southampton Emergency Medicine Education Project
More goodness from the Southampton Emergency Medicine Education Project The video is here If you want to download to listen on you bike the audio-only is here (R click to save) or To play the audio on your computer if your hospital’s firewall won’t let you watch the video use this: A couple of things [...]
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Welcome to ED
Hello and welcome to ED Here are some useful resources for doctor’s starting off in ED. They are short videos about how we approach common ED presentations. They are also available in audio format so you can listen and learn on your bike, at the gym or in your car. The approach to an ED [...]
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Abdominal Pain. Mike Clancy. SEMEP
More goodness from the Southampton Emergency Medicine Education Project Mike Clancy on abdominal pain. Mike is the President of the UK College of Emergency Medicine @CEMpresident (wish I’d know this before I publicly disagreed with him on a few points) Video: Audio: Or you can download audio here (right-click) or A few points of [...]
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Shortness of Breath. Iain Beardsell. SEMEP
From the wonderful people at the Southampton Emergency Medicine Education Project Video: Audio: or download audio here (right click) or A few things we do differently Down Under are that we seldom do ABGs on COPDs, and almost never on asthmatics. A VBG can tell you whether a CO2 is high, low or about normal [...]
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Syncope. Beardsell. SEMEP
More goodness from the Southamptom Emergency Medicine Education Project Video: Audio: or download (right-click) here or Key points (plus some extras from me) History: Previous episodes Family history of sudden death Hx of cardiac disease – more likely to have a dysrhythmia Syncope during exercise Witnessed convulsion (but may occur with syncope) Standing vs lying [...]
