General
Urgent & Emergency Care Bulletin
Department of Health has published issue 62 (September 2009) of its Urgent and Emergency Care bulletin. Features include: Join the big care debate and the launch of the Expert on call seminar series.
2009 Annual Evidence Update on Heart Failure
This evidence update from the NHS Evidence Urgent and Emergency Care Specialist Collection, covers the latest guidance and evidence-based reviews relating to heart failure, specifically on diagnosis and risk stratification and pharmacological therapies.
Evidence-Based Medicine
BestBETS – Best Evidence Topics provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. Three new or modified BETS were added last month.
Do written asthma action plans reduce hospital admissions?
Is intravenous immunoglobulin superior to exchange transfusion in the management of hyperbilirubinaemia in term neonates?
Urethral catheter or suprapubic aspiration to reduce contamination of urine samples in young children?
Guidelines
Swine flu: UK planning assumptions (DoH)
Guideline for information sharing to reduce community violence (CEM)
Guideline for ketamine sedation of children in emergency departments (CEM)
The recognition and assessment of acute pain in children. Update of full guideline (RCN)
Extracorporeal albumin dialysis for acute liver failure (NICE)
Cochrane Library
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects - highlights in September
Drug-eluting stents: a systematic review and economic evaluation
Excluding venous thromboembolism using point of care D-dimer tests in outpatients: a diagnostic meta-analysis
Systematic review of dexketoprofen in acute and chronic pain
Highlights from the Literature
Emergency Medicine Online, October 2009, vol. 26, issue 10
Emergency Care Practitioners: shaping a new type of practitioner from existing NHS clinical roles
A simple intervention improves the recording of vital signs in children presenting to the emergency department
SAFER (Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals) trial: study design
CPD
Conferences, Study Days and Courses
Alder Hey Course in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, 15-16 Oct 2009
ACCS National Day - Wednesday 28 Oct 2009
International Trauma Conference Manchester 30 Oct – 2 Nov 2009
International Trauma Conference Charlotte, NC, USA 5-9 Nov 2009
Trauma Masterclass 18 Nov 2009
Biannual ST3 Paediatric EM symposium 24 Nov 2009
Advance Care Planning-Getting Involved 27 Oct & 5 Nov 2009
London Trauma Conference 9-11 Dec 2009
Advances in Acute Medicine 11 Jan 2010
New Medscape Emergency Medicine CME
An Unusual Presentation of a Lingual Ulcerative Lesion
Clinical Consensus II: An Expert Review of Clinical Challenges in Infectious Disease
MRSA in the Community: Best Practices for Early Management and Treatment of Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections
This bulletin is brought to you by Library and Knowledge Services. It aims to keep you up-to-date with infection control issues. At the beginning of each month, a librarian will update the bulletin with relevant information published in the preceding month. If there are areas you think we also need to cover, please let us know.
This bulletin is brought to you by Library and Knowledge Services. It aims to keep you up-to-date with accident and emergency issues. At the beginning of each month, a librarian will update the bulletin with relevant information published in the preceding month. If there are areas you think we also need to cover, please let us know.
