NEW: the collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week, a close match for non-Covid excess deaths Let’s look at how we reach that conclusion, by taking a deep-dive into non-Covid excess mortality and its possible causes ft.com/content/f36c5d…

1st Annual NCHD/NURSING SimWars is taking place at the ASM 20-21/10 DEADLINE TO SIGNUP FOR COMPETITION = MON 03/10 Show off your Resus skills! SimWars participants must be registered for conference. Rules & signup bit.ly/3C79ZwJ ASM registration iaem2022.exordo.com

If you are a doctor and still unwilling to see patients in person in September, 2022--time to find a new profession.

1st Annual NCHD/NURSING SimWars is taking place at the ASM 20-21/10 DEADLINE TO SIGNUP IS TODAY! Show off your Resus skills! SimWars participants must be registered for conference. Rules & signup bit.ly/3C79ZwJ ASM registration iaem2022.exordo.com

Sign my petition to have the UN immediately inspect all HSE admin offices for notions.

Did it though?

Received at 15 minutes past midnight after a gruelling resus case. Love my EM colleagues.

⁦NDTP⁩ #ndtp22 Leo Kearns IMC - excellent presentation - we need to do better for our NCHDs

Sneak pics prepping for tomorrows Sim Wars Intersim Competition 🥼🥼 Looking forward to see everyone tomorrow having a bit of competitive and skillful fun!🏆🏆 QUB Centre for Medical Education Gerry Gormley

Amazing numbers attending these internal #SimWars23 competitions all over the country. Well done all!

IAEM rejects the circular issued by a representative of RCPI regarding the referral of patients for evaluation by its doctors without having been ‘reviewed and appropriately worked up by ED doctors’ as inappropriate from a patient care perspective - bit.ly/40dGvqu

Feckin Brexit! 🙄

IAEM is appalled by the death and serious injury visited on civilian populations as a consequence of the Israel-Hamas war and joins with the UN and NGO chiefs in describing the killings of both Israelis and Palestinians over the past month as horrific. bit.ly/3Qv6J4h

Yes please.

Great few days of in-person learning with QMUL Emergency & Resuscitation Masters Blizard Institute & Barts Health. Immersive simulation, interesting talks, case discussions and of course meeting London's Air Ambulance Charity 's world famous whirlybird. Sincere thanks to all faculty inc Libby Thomas Ben Bloom tim harris

Our hypothesis was that IO access would be quicker. Time to IV and IO access was exactly the same! In PARAMEDIC-3, paramedics could choose where to site the IO access- about 80% patients received a proximal tibial IO; about 20% received proximal humeral IO. (10/n)

This month's #ConnollyED #simulation is the management & transfer of traumatic brain injury with neuroprotective RSI. Early identification of acute orbital compartment syndrome. Importance of shared mental model. Many thanks to Connolly ICU & National Ambulance Service 🇮🇪🚑 for the collaboration.