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Virtual hospital of #FOAMed

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Situational awareness is a core trauma team leadership skill. Learn how high-performing TTLs use perception, comprehension, and projection to stay proactive in trauma resuscitation.

TTL tips 12: Thinking ahead

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Survival effect of prehospital emergency anaesthesia in major trauma A St.Emlyn’s review of a major new trauma study examining whether prehospital emergency anaesthesia and intubation improve survival using machine learning and causal inference methods.

Survival effect of prehospital emergency anaesthesia in major trauma

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Practical trauma handover advice for trauma team leaders in emergency medicine. Learn how to structure ATMIST handovers, prepare resus before arrival, improve teamwork with prehospital/HEMS crews, and optimise patient safety in major trauma.

TTL Tip 11: Be the TTL your prehospital teams want to hand over to

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The three-body problem and ED clinical staffing Most clinical staff working on Emergency Department (ED) rotas operate within a contracted maximum of one weekend in three. Resident doctors, Specialty and Specialist (SAS) grades, and doctors in training all sit within this limit. Consultants are tec

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Can peer recovery workers improve outcomes after opioid overdose in the emergency department? A critical review of new Annals of Emergency Medicine research

Opioid overdoses: should we bring peer support workers into ED?

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IncrEMentuM 2026 - Inspirational Emergency Medicine in Murcia

Some conferences leave you with a list of clinical updates. Others leave you with new questions. A few make you think again about how we learn, how we teach, and what it means to practise Emergency Medicine together. IncrEMentuM 2026 in Murcia was one of those events. For those who have not been, IncrEMentuM is not an easy conference to describe in a single sentence. It is an Emergency Medicine…

IncrEMentuM 2026 - Inspirational Emergency Medicine in Murcia

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Our review of day 3 of the RCEM annual scientific conference 2026 in Birmingham. Trauma, paeds, analgesia, AI, and more HALO. FOAmed RCEM @stemlyns

RCEM Annual Conference 2026 – Day 3

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Our summary of Day 2 at RCEM Conference 2026, covering prize papers, AI in emergency medicine, major trials, health inequalities, and clinical insights.

RCEM Annual Conference 2026 – Day 2

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RCEM Annual Conference 2026 - Day 1

Alright bab, it’s great to be back in Birmingham and even better to be here for the 2026 RCEM Annual Conference, a huge undertaking with the merger of the annual CPD and scientific conferences, and we’ve been looking forward to attending for months. We (Simon and Chris) are here to take you through the lessons we have learnt from the conference each day, and deliver you some much needed #FOMO,…

RCEM Annual Conference 2026 - Day 1

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High Five for High PEITHO? Intermediate-high risk PE @ St Emlyns Prof Dan Horner takes us through pulmonary embolism, accompanying his talk at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Annual Conference 2026

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TTL tip 10: Put the trauma patient straight onto the PORTABLE monitor.

Making things happen quickly and efficientrly is a key skill for TTLs. There are lots of ways to do this, and one method s to think through our processes and remove as many inefficient steps as possible. Doing that will get our patient to CT or theatre as quickly and as safely as possible. One of the simplest ways to do this is to avoid delays is switching monitoring systems before…

TTL tip 10: Put the trauma patient straight onto the PORTABLE monitor.

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Smoking cessation interventions in the ED appear effective only when nicotine replacement therapy is included. But the real-world value, cost-effectiveness, and role of EDs remain uncertain.

Fit to quit? The trial evidence for smoking cessation interventions in ED

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How many patients should we see per hour? Clinician productivity depends largely on conditions provided. This blog explains why patients per hour is the last question you should ask and not the first. St Emlyn's

How many patients should we see per hour?

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Marching Backwards into the Future: Why Healthcare Needs Fewer Modules and More Systems Thinking

By Jesse Spurr from the amazing Five Things Nursing Podcast, which and which is co-hosted with our very own Dr Liz Crowe. You should defo subscribe as relevant to all in healthcare. You can find it here or on your favourite podcast platform. “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” Marshall McLuhan If you have worked in healthcare long enough, you…

Marching Backwards into the Future: Why Healthcare Needs Fewer Modules and More Systems Thinking

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Join the global emergency medicine community at ICEM 2026 in Hamburg. Explore the programme, St Emlyn’s speakers, and why IFEM still matters. (and Noah Wyle too!)

IFEM 2026: Will we see you in Hamburg?

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Do we always need to place a chest tube before CT in a patient with suspected or known haemo or pneumothorax? TTL tips #FOAMed @stemlyns

TTL Tip 9: Chest Drain Before CT? Think, Decide, Communicate

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Emergency Department crowding is hard to explain to non-clinical audiences. A cognitive bridge is a three-step tool to help others understand.

Explaining Emergency Department Crowding Using a Cognitive Bridge