RCEM Learning

Here’s what went on at the fantastic RCEM ’15 Annual Conference in Manchester on Day 1

Urine testing potentially isn’t the most glamorous of topics but it’s an area which there’s a HUGE scope for us improving on.

We all feel the pressure when managing the feverish child. Differentiating simple viral illness from Serious Bacterial Infection can be challenging in the Emergency Department and requires good clinical acumen.

Traumatic Cardiac arrest is a stressful and time critical presentation to the ED. You need to have a solid structure in your mind for how to deal with it in a safe and effective manner.

The Returning Traveller is designed to give junior ED clinicians the tools needed to safely manage these patients who attend more often – and more unwell – than we think.

So here is a guide to the new NICE pneumonia guidelines that were published in December 2014, I hope you find it useful.

There’s no doubt that a case of sepsis will pass through your ED in the next hour or so.

SMACC-US was phenomenal! An amazing event, superb education, great networking, and fantastic hospitality. Here’s a brief overview of some highlights.

Best Practice Guidelines are produced by the Royal College for important problems where there is anticipated to be little or no relevant high quality evidence.

Soft tissue infections are bread and butter cases for the EM clinician. Adrian Boyle gives an overview of the main take home points from his talk on just this topic at the #RCEMBelfast Conference.