RCEM Learning

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.

James Harding, Consultant at UHCW in Interventional Radiology, gives an overview of his talk from the Trauma Care Conference in Telford on Interventional Radiology (IR) in Trauma.

Resus Officers – They know how to run an arrest, it's what they do and they are all very experienced at it.

Athletes in the ED, my ED, we hardly ever see them……..or so you might think. Actually the definition of an athlete means you come across them far more often than you may first have thought.

This is a blog and podcast produced on collaboration with St. Emlyns and the RCFN based on Professor Simon Carleys talk from the Trauma Care UK conference in Telford.

Hyperkalaemia is a common electrolyte disturbance with life threatening complications. The recognition and effective treatment is crucial in the ED. This vodcast gives a sound overview of the approach to hyperkalaemia.

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.

Improving care in the ED, one department's response to the Francis report. Gavin Lloyd sums up his talk from the #RCEMBelfast conference and discusses how his department has implemented some simple but effective measures to make some real differences to the care received by their patients.