Many years ago, when I was working as a registrar in Emergency Medicine and starting my PhD, my supervisor (a social scientist) got me to think about the assumptions I […]

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We see a lot of patients with mechanisms of injury and/or clinical signs that suggest a spinal column injury. Should you image the whole spine or just the areas that […]

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Syncope is one of those presentations that can be both straightforward and remarkably difficult. In many patients the history gives us a pretty convincing diagnosis of vasovagal or orthostatic syncope, […]

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Manual pressure augmentation reduces transthoracic impedance during defibrillation, but does that translate into better outcomes? We review the AUGMENT-VA randomised trial and revisit our previous BestBET on this intervention.

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Next April, the RCEM Annual Conference comes to Manchester, and I’d really like to encourage colleagues from across the UK, and especially our friends and colleagues from around the world, to come and join us.

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