Issue 33: December 2009
General
Guidance for safer handling during resuscitation in hospitals
This updated document has been produced in response to a number of requests for guidance and advice on safer handling during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is primarily for adult patients, but may be appropriate for children over the age of 8 years.
Pandemic influenza: good medical practice - responsibilities of doctors in a national pandemic
This document provides good practice guidance for doctors during a flu pandemic. These guidelines refer specifically to when UK Level 3 (i.e - outbreak(s) in the UK) of an influenza pandemic is announced. Published February 2009, updated November 2009.
Human Swine Influenza – update from the CEM
The College of Emergency Medicine has recently updated its guidance on human swine flu based on the latest guidelines and advice.
National Knowledge Week for Sepsis Bundles
Just updated, this knowledge week covers severe sepsis care bundles including the severe sepsis resuscitation, designed to be completed within 6 hours following the onset of severe sepsis, and the severe sepsis management bundle, designed to be completed within 24 hours.
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. One new or modified BETS were added last month.
Do buckle fractures of the paediatric wrist require follow-up?
Cochrane Library
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
Most clinical tests cannot accurately diagnose rotator cuff pathology: a systematic review
Proton pump inhibitors for the prevention of stress-related mucosal disease in critically-ill patients: a meta-analysis
Guidelines
Improving safety, reducing harm: children, young people and domestic violence: a practical toolkit for front-line practitioners
The contribution of medical students to services in pandemic flu
The role of healthcare students (England) in pandemic flu - excluding medical students
Care of the patient with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. (NGC)
Care of the patient with seizures (NGC)
Best evidence statement (BESt). Confirmation of nasogastric tube placement in pediatric patients (NGC)
Early acute management in adults with spinal cord injury: a clinical practice guideline for health-care professionals (NGC)
Diagnosis and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (NGC)
Highlights from the Literature
Emergency Medicine Online, December 2009, vol. 26, issue 12
Clinical diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in patients with chest pain and a normal or non-diagnostic electrocardiogram
Proximal interphalangeal joint hyperextension injuries in children
An unusual cause of lower abdominal pain in pubertal girls
Calcified pleural plaque mimicking a traumatic pneumothorax
CPD Conferences, Study Days and Courses
Advances in Acute Medicine 11 Jan 2010
Emergency Medicine 2010
APLS Course 11-12 January 2010
Patient Safety in Acute Medicine 17 Feb 2010
Emergency Physicians in Intensive Care 5 May 2010, London
Interface Geriatrics: Examining new models of care for frail older people across primary and secondary care 5 Mar 2010, London
New Medscape Emergency Medicine CME
Chronic Pelvic Mass in a Young Patient With Ascites
A 74-Year-Old Man With Acute Myelocytic Leukemia and Dyspnea
Diagnosis and Management of Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
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