General
Triage position statement
CEM, ENCA, FEN & RCN have today jointly published a position statement on triage. The paper defines the activities of triage, initial assessment and streaming and indicates the added value of each to the patient pathway in the emergency /urgent care settings.
Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
New guidance from the General Medical Council (GMC) for doctors about making recordings of patients.
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. No new or modified BETS were added last month.
Guidelines
British Guidelines on the Management of Asthma (SIGN)
Prevention and management of venous thromboembolism. Audit tools
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe acute respiratory failure in adults (NICE)
Stent insertion for bleeding oesophageal varices (NICE)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Antifibrinolytic drugs for acute traumatic injury
Progesterone for acute traumatic brain injury
Vitamin A for preventing acute lower respiratory tract infections in children up to seven years of age
Nebulized hypertonic saline solution for acute bronchiolitis in infants
Interventions for acute auricular haematoma
Laparoscopy for the management of acute lower abdominal pain in women of childbearing age
Highlights from the Literature
Emergency Medicine Journal 28 (5) May 2011
Major trauma CT scanning: the experience of a regional trauma centre in the UK
Sedation of children in the emergency department for short painful procedures compared with theatre, how much does it save?
Age-based formulae to estimate children's weight in the emergency department
Conferences
CEM Half-Day Allergy & Metabolic Problems, 3 June, Churchill House, CEM
CEM UK Team course, 2/3 June, Birmingham
NPIS/CEM Study Day, 10 June, Edinburgh
ACCS - Acute Medicine and Emergency Medicine, 27 June, Cambridge
CEM New Consultants Study Day, 22 July 2011, Churchill House
CEM UK Team course, 27th/28th September, London
Basic Trauma Course, 24th September, Solihull Hospital
UK Training in Emergency Airway Management (TEAM) Course, 29th – 30th Sept, London
Acute Care Conference, September, Leicester
Acute Medicine SpR training day, Mon 17 Oct, Birmingham
CEM/IFEM Symposium: Quality & Safety in Emergency Care 15/16 November 2011 London
New Medscape Emergency Medicine CME
Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Evidence-Based Diagnosis of HAE
Emerging Roles of Medical Therapy and Management in Predicting Better Outcomes in Heart Failure
Ischemic Stroke: Contemporary Strategies to Maximize Reperfusion
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Issue 50 May 2011
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.
