OSCE passed. FRCEM ✅ 😊
It’s a weird surreal feeling that after 18 years of doing exams through high school, university, and postgraduate exams I am finally done.
‼️ANNOUNCEMENT – Resident doctors in 🏴
📣 Strikes next week are suspended after new pay offer from Scottish Gov following negotiations
You will have your chance to vote on it in the coming weeks
Read the full details 👇
https://t.co/ThzVLAIhF0
📢 New National Pre-Alert Guideline
RCEM and @AACE_org have released a new national guideline to standardise pre-alert calls between ambulance services and EDs. 📄 Full guideline available now: https://t.co/ULUt583vX2
✅ Updated criteria for pre-alerts
✅ Use of ATMIST format
✅ Concise communication
✅ Importance of training for all staff
This is about improving collaborative working to create safe patient handovers. Please share with your colleagues and teams!
All position and advisory statements: https://t.co/HnVJpYAwlA
Radiological signs of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy on head computed tomography for prediction of poor functional outcome after cardiac arrest – a prospective observational cohort study
https://t.co/NCGkZcdO6j
#Resuscitation
Don’t disagree that treating sepsis early is important. BUT identifying sepsis early is hard. Just treating everyone with antibiotics quickly also has harm. A short thread 1/n
Had a great day yesterday helping out at @stabbslifeboat teaching a mix of adult and paediatric medical and trauma scenarios.
I also got to go for a ride on the lifeboat!
🚨 New: Best Practice Guidelines with the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) - Management of Patients with Suspected but Unidentified Poisoning in the Emergency Department.
⬇️ Download it 🔄 share it ▶️ practice it. 🔗 Link: https://t.co/2bfLPXW1pO
Second Regulation 28 following the death of a patient misdiagnosed by a physician associate in ED
"Witnesses from the Trust gave evidence that a Physician Associate was clinically equivalent to a Tier 2 resident doctor without evidence to support this belief"
@RCEMpresident