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Authors: Emma Philp and Deepankar Datta Both of us are looking forward to being at ICEM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Emergency Medicine, which is taking place in Amsterdam this month. Emma is one of our Advanced Nurse Practitioners at St John's Hospital Emergency Department. She’s
We often say that our skills in Emergency Medicine are transferrable across a number of vocations and different environments. Mia Paderanga, one of our ED research nurses, has certainly put that to the test! Here's her account of working as a volunteer nurse in Laos.   &a
What are we doing?  Since September Dr Jon Patrick and and Art Psychotherapist Kate Pestell have been training the ED staff in mentalisation.  Why are we doing it? So as a team I think we are pretty empathetic, this slips the busier and more stressed we get. When it slips w
An insight into Iceland’s Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care systems Dr Ross Archibald, ST6 Emergency Medicine, South East Scotland Deanery I have been very fortunate to be able to spend the final few weeks of my emergency medicine training in Iceland, thanks to the Robin Mitchell Fellows
I was woken this morning to the call for prayer as usual at 5.30am, managed another 40 winks then up for breakfast and the usual chaotic drive to the clinic. Today was a fairly quiet day, it’s friday the holy day... around 4pm in comes a wee 4 year old who we had already treated two days ago with th
To DAT or not to DAT, that is the question! You can see from the pictures that some diphtheria pseudo membranes are fairly obvious. Nobody would miss that. Many however are far trickier and as doctors we all have different thresholds for what we would treat with DAT - diphtheria anti toxin. We’ve h
An Insight into Iceland’s Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care Systems Dr Ross Archibald, ST6 Emergency Medicine, South East Scotland Deanery The last part of my Fellowship was scheduled to take place in the north of Iceland in Akureyri, the largest town outside the populous south west of t
An Insight into Iceland’s Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care Systems Dr Ross Archibald, ST6 Emergency Medicine, South East Scotland Deanery This week began with an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. The Icelandic Coast Guard had scheduled a helicopter mission to the far east of the country i
An insight into Iceland’s Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care systems Dr Ross Archibald, ST6 Emergency Medicine, South East Scotland Deanery This Fellowship has allowed me to obtain a timely insight into Iceland’s pre-hospital care system, which is undergoing development at the same time t
One of our fab EdinburghEM Consultants, Rachel, has been deployed to Bangladesh as part of a UKMED team to help in the diphtheria outbreak at the Rohingya refugee camp. Here's an account of the start of her journey.... I have been very fortunate to have been supported by my colleagues in the Emerge