A busy week for team International Federation for Emergency Medicine as we sign a three-year agreement with the Dept of Health Abu Dhabi, supporting a regional hub with offices, partnerships and education events.
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I am part of a group constructing a questionnaire about blood tests. A question about use of language for UK clinicians only: Do you “order” or “request” blood tests in your hospital?

A new form ‘only’ takes 1 minute per patient.
650 patients = 650 minutes per day
3,954 hours per year
37.5 hrs per week is 1,575 hours per year.
So we need 2.5 additional staff to fill in a “1 minute” form.
BUT this also works the other way round.

South Korea is making significant strides in the field of pediatric emergency medicine. The tragic incident in 2010, where a 4-year-old child lost their life due to a delayed diagnosis of intussusception, catalyzed the specialization of PEM.

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Being in the ED is a ‘teachable moment’ when people seem open to messages about their health. Encouraging access to ED waiting room by personnel from the local stop smoking service seems like a good idea.

Beginning to suspect that what3words has an ironic sense of humour built in, given the code for our ambulance triage station!

Now feeling really bad. For a trainee to put in the time and effort to edit the SBA then have someone come along and be ultra-picky about the words! Not my intention to criticise. Twitter / X can be such a minefield!

Am often struck by the word “denies” in a history. It is an odd use of English. Seems to have the connotation that you don’t quite believe the response.
“She has not had fever….. “
“She denies fever……”
Do these both convey the same meaning?

Prof Shin is the inspiration behind the PATOS (Pan Asian Trauma Outcomes Study) and PAROS (Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study) networks.
Great examples of collaborative research networks. I am really looking forwards to his talk.

Part of the motivation for this document seems to be to respond to perceived weaknesses or omissions in the recent Society for Critical Care Medicine guidelines

Finished this uncomfortable, sad and insightful book. Reflections on self identity, intensity of medical training and our own mortality.
Long hours culture still firmly embedded in US training. Calman did some good for UK trainees.

So, to apply this rule you need to first decide that a blood culture is required - then apply the rule. This will be a hard piece of logic to apply.
It would be an error to apply the rule to all patients suspected of sepsis!

Bank holiday quiz. If you have a patient who is identified as high risk by a prediction model (say 10%) and you treat them correctly, does this make their risk less than 10%?

Sad to hear of the passing of someone who really shaped the way that I think about my work and my own decision making. ‘Thinking fast and slow’ should be required reading for all emergency physicians.

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Was sad to see this goodbye from the UK Cochrane collaboration - it feels like we have lost something good. Cochrane

I really liked this representation of primary care work. Should be read and thought about by any member of ED staff before they do any media interviews about the cause of ED crowding (clue: it’s flow not primary care!).

This article highlighting the information governance difficulties involved in training AI on NHS data.
Also mentions that reinforcement learning not compatible with current medical device regulations.
Good to see a journalist opening up these issues Zoe Kleinman

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