St Emlyn's practical guide to ketamine use as a Trauma Team Leader, including analgesia, procedural sedation, delayed sequence induction, dosing and monitoring. #FOAMed

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It is tempting to think that expertise comes from accumulating enough facts, passing enough exams or simply spending 10,000 hours at work. In this episode, Iain Beardsell is joined by emergency physician, intensivist and medical educator Sara Crager to explore why expertise is less about how much we know and more about how we think.

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Great review from Stevan.

Emergency medicine clinicians are increasingly asked to balance brutal realities with hope for a better future. Drawing on the Stockdale paradox, NHS Staff Survey data, moral injury research and personal experience, this reflective article explores burnout, leadership, crowding and why surviving difficult systems depends not only on resilience, but on having colleagues who have our back.

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Struggling with vascular access in trauma? Practical tips on IO access, central lines, external jugular access and rapid alternatives for trauma resuscitation.

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Medical boarding extracts a crowding tax in deaths, delays and bed-days. New research quantifies it, and suggests it is fixable from within.

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