Category Archives: FOAMEd

There and Back Again: An Emergency Medicine Elective in New Zealand — Adventure Medic

Dr Emily Watts / Foundation Doctor / Chesterfield Emily is an FY1 doctor in Chesterfield, after graduating from Nottingham Medical School in 2017. She spent her final weeks of medical school on elective in Rotorua, working in their Emergency Department (ED) and taking advantage of New Zealand’s rich culture and great outdoors. Aotearoa Aotearoa, the… viaContinue reading “There and Back Again: An Emergency Medicine Elective in New Zealand — Adventure Medic”

Air Care Series: Burns Management — Taming the SRU

History of Present IllnessAir Care 1 is dispatched for a scene flight involving a young male patient with extensive thermal burn injuries. In addition to his severe burns, the patient was reportedly hypoxic on a non-rebreather mask and tachycardic. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the scene reports that there are no known traumatic injuries. The… viaContinue reading “Air Care Series: Burns Management — Taming the SRU”

Tips for FOAMed groups based in High Income Countries to help become Freely ACCESSIBLE Medical Education (FAME) — #badEM

The below are some random thoughts extracted from my talk at AfCEM 2018 Conference: Appropriateness: Don’t forget your audience is worldwide not all in the same healthcare context as you – think about your influence. Sometimes flippant comments/assumptions are made by authors that when read by a clinician from low resource context, renders them despondent… viaContinue reading “Tips for FOAMed groups based in High Income Countries to help become Freely ACCESSIBLE Medical Education (FAME) — #badEM”

COMM CHECK: Sterile Cockpit — EMCrit Project

Post is coauthored by Ashley Keiler-Green MD, EM/Critical Care Attending, University of New Mexico School of Medicine This post is part of the COMM CHECK series on communication during resuscitation. Silence is a source of great strength -Lao Tzu The Sterile Cockpit Communication is a key aspect of safe and efficient task execution in all high-risk…Continue reading “COMM CHECK: Sterile Cockpit — EMCrit Project”

A short story about life… — Don’t Forget the Bubbles

Cite this article as: Tagg, A. A short story about life…, Don’t Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at:http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16688This is the second of a two part post based on my talk for FIX18 entitled A short story about death and life. We published the first part yesterday. As we were playing in the courtyard by the… viaContinue reading “A short story about life… — Don’t Forget the Bubbles”

A short story about death… — Don’t Forget the Bubbles

Cite this article as: Tagg, A. A short story about death…, Don’t Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at:http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16636This is the first of a two part post based on my talk for FIX18 entitled A short story about death and life… We’ll publish the second part tomorrow. “Someone will be along in a minute to explain what…Continue reading “A short story about death… — Don’t Forget the Bubbles”

EM Nerd-The Case of the Inferior Superiority — EMCrit Project

A perfect trial would require minimal statistical tools to assist in its analysis. Such a trial would be so large that the sample approached the true likeness of the broader population it intended to emulate, thus the risk of sampling error would be minimal. The confidence intervals surrounding the point estimates would be so minute,… viaContinue reading “EM Nerd-The Case of the Inferior Superiority — EMCrit Project”