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Resources for ISTC NSOCM students

February 10, 2017 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

Resources for ISTC NSOCM students

This is a post intended for the NSOCM students I presented to last week at the ISTC The title of my session was: ‘Practice, Perform, Process’: Strategies for Building Mental Toughness. Here are some of the resources I used to design the session, which I believe will be useful for you guys. Books On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology […]

EMJ Blog – Nuances of Neurogenic Shock

November 4, 2016 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

EMJ Blog – Nuances of Neurogenic Shock

In my latest EMJ blog, I’ve reviewed an interesting recent paper from Taylor et al that explores some of the finer details of neurogenic shock – a rare, but potentially lethal complication of spinal trauma. Click here for the post. Here is the original paper: Presentation of neurogenic shock within the emergency department. Matthew Pritam Taylor, Paul […]

An Englishman in South Africa: Robert Lloyd at St. Emlyn’s (link)

May 9, 2016 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

An Englishman in South Africa: Robert Lloyd at St. Emlyn’s (link)

Here is the blog post I wrote for St. Emlyn’s to accompany the podcast – ‘An Englishman in South Africa’ – that I recorded with Professor Simon Carley (@EMManchester) at ICEM 2016. I discuss the human stress response and its effect on performance, strategies for building a more resilient mindset, and stress inoculation training. I explore these […]

St. Emlyn’s Podcast – An Englishman in South Africa

May 1, 2016 By Pondering EM 2 Comments

St. Emlyn’s Podcast – An Englishman in South Africa

Whilst at the International Conference of Emergency Medicine earlier this month, Professor Simon Carley (@EMManchester) and I recorded a St. Emlyn’s podcast about my time working in South Africa. The podcast is embedded below. We cover a lot of the content from my talk – ‘A UK Trainee’s Lessons From the Western Cape’ – you can find the references here. […]

Fluid Management in the Exsanguinating Trauma Patient

March 22, 2016 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

Fluid Management in the Exsanguinating Trauma Patient

Tom Bourne (@Bourne4ED) is an EM advanced trainee currently plying his trade at The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre in Melbourne. Born in the UK, now settled in Australia, the only thing Bourney enjoys more than getting his hands dirty in resus is swinging a golf club in anger. If his medical career falls through, he can […]

Traumatic Brain Injury: An Insider’s Guide to Neurosurgical Referrals

August 9, 2015 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

Traumatic Brain Injury: An Insider’s Guide to Neurosurgical Referrals

Author: Aimun Jamjoom (@aabjamjoom) Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is very common; in fact, in all likelihood you have experienced one yourself at some point in your life. Fortunately, the vast majority of injuries (over three quarters of cases) are on the mild end of the spectrum [1]. However, those patients who unfortunately sustain a more […]

Lessons From South Africa

July 27, 2015 By Pondering EM 17 Comments

Lessons From South Africa

I recently completed a 3-month postgraduate EM elective in Cape Town, South Africa. I arranged the elective through Stellenbosch University, and worked in 2 hospitals – New Somerset Hospital in the Cape Town city centre, and Khayelitsha District Hospital in the nearby township. I hunted down the experience in order to sample a new flavour […]

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Reflecting on two months as a Sydney HEMS registrar

*Originally posted on the Sydney HEMS blog Uniform fitted. Induction complete. 10-mission milestone reached. It has been a learning frenzy. I’m a UK-trained emergency physician, and am two months into my year as a Sydney HEMS registrar. Some of my early reflections on the experience have had time to crystallise into bloggable form… I’m one […]

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