Based at the University Hospitals of Leicester, we serve the educational needs of healthcare practitioners in Acute & Emergency Medicine across the East Midlands, UK
Delirium is greatly under-detected in the ED. 1/3 of cases are preventable and twice as likely to die than non-delirious patients.
It's 10:00pm on a Saturday night and a mother has brought in her 2-year-old son to children’s ED.
Diabetic patients who are unwell often have a higher BM than normal. The liver releases glucose to enable the body to fight illness.
A 12-month-old is brought to the ED by paramedics after mum lost her balance and poured a kettle full of boiling water over the child’s face and chest.
A 78-year-old man feeling non-specifically unwell for a few days. 1 day of headaches and intermittently confused.
A 6-month-old child is brought to the ED by her mum with a 3-day history of diarrhoea and vomiting.
One week on, relive #GEMcon16 through some tweets from the day...
