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14:00-15:30 Wednesday 15 September, Hall 8B
14:00-14:05
MP1: Can Side Stream Qualitative Capnography Help to Differentiate the Causes of Acute Wheezy Dyspnoea in the Emergency Department (ED)?
Dr Sarah Krishnanandan
14:05-14:10
MP2: Current Trends for Rate Control in New Onset Atrial Fibrillation in the ED. Are we NICE Complaint?
Dr Farooq Pasha
14:10-14:15
MP3: Current use of Early Warning Scoring Systems in UK Emergency Departments
Dr James Griffiths
14:15-14:20
MP4: Transcutaneous Carbon Dioxide Monitoring - Dynamic Enough to be Useful in Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in the Emergency Department?
Dr Clare O’Leary
14:20-14:25
MP5: Collaboration and Communication Technology at the Heart of Hospital Transformation
Dr Navin Bedi
14:25-14:30
MP6: Review of Consecutive CT Chest Examinations to Determine a Safe Distance for Dilator Ion During Seldinger Chest Drain Placement
Dr Emma Greenwood
14:30-14:35
MP7: Developing the Role of an Emergency Medicine Physician in Humanitarian Assistance: A Personal Journey
Dr Najeeb Rahman
14:35-14:40
MP8: How can ED Trainees Acquire Level 1 Ultrasound Competencies?
Dr Helen Mansfield
14:40-14:45
MP9: How Accurate are Predicted Waiting Times Determined Upon a Patient’s Arrival in the Emergency Department?
Dr Sherif Hemaya
14:45-14:50
MP10: Does it Really Need a Drain? A Conservative Approach to Traumatic Pneumothorax
Dr Tamsin Ribbons
14:50-14:55
MP11: Reducing CT Scans in Head Injury in a DGH: Feasibility Study of Protein S100B as a Screening Tool
Dr Rajaravi Somasegaram
14:55-15:00
MP12: Prehospital Administration of Ketamine for Orthopaedic Injuries by Paramedics is Safe and Effective
Dr Stephen Rashford
MP13: 15:00-15:05
Inter-Hospital Variation in the RATPAC Trial (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac Markers)
Professor Steve Goodacre
MP14: 15:05-15:10
The RATPAC Trial (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers): A Randomised Controlled Trial of Point-of-Care Cardiac Markers in the Emergency Department
Professor Steve Goodacre
MP15: 15:10-15:15
Sedation of Children in the Emergency Department for Short Painful Procedures Compared to Theatre, how much does it Save? An Economic Evaluation
Dr Adrian Boyle
MP16: 15:15-15:20
I Know What I Mean. Emergency Medicine Trainees' Understanding of the Mean Arterial Blood Pressure
Dr Katy Miller
MP17: 15:20-15:25
Effect of Temperature, Hypothermia and Hyperthermia, on the Gel Point, Fractal Dimension and Structure and Strength of a Blood Clot
Dr Rangaswamy Mothukuri
MP 18: 15:25-15:30
Resuscitation Lateral Cervical Spine X-Ray (LCSX): A Useful Mandatory Screening Tool in Acute Trauma?
Dr Sounder Perumal
PB = Poster Board. The number indicates which poster board you have been assigned.
PB 1: Cost-Effectiveness of Diagnostic Strategies for Minor Head Injury
Professor Steve Goodacre
PB 2: Ultrasound in the Assessment of Ocular Blast Injury in the Military ED
Dr Simon Horne
PB 3: Prognostic Value of Various Computed Tomography (CT) Findings in Traumatic Brain Injury
Dr Mehdi Lesko
PB 4: TAP-Block as a Part of the Postoperative Pain Management after Abdominal Surgery? Experiences from a Combat Support Hospital, Role 3, Camp Bastion, Afghanistan
Dr Henrik Torup
PB 5: Health Status Following Emergency Medical Admission: the DAVROS Study
Professor Steve Goodacre
PB 6: Battlefield Analgesia Review: Experiences from Pre-Hospital Trauma Care in OP Herrick 10b, R3 (UK) FD HOSP, Camp Bastion, Afghanistan
Dr Kariatta Koroma
PB 7: Outcome of Wrist Injuries with Clinical Suspicion of Scaphoid Injury Following Normal CT
DR Jason Smith
PB 8: Doctors’ Knowledge of Prescription Charges – A Hidden Cost to the Patient?
Dr Claire Rowberry
PB 9: Cardiac Markers and Chest Pain Protocol in the ED
Dr Adebowale Adesina
PB 10: Prehospital Ultrasound Reduces Time to Definitive Surgery at a Major Trauma Service
Dr Stephen Rashford
PB 11: The Management of Suspected Scaphoid Fracture - Is Follow up Imaging Necessary?
Dr Anthony Moore
PB 12: A Survey of Injuries Sustained by Professional Rugby League Players
Mr Patrick Dissman
PB 13: Impact of Operational Conditions on Medication Concentration
Dr Cynthia McPherson
PB 14: Audit of the Management of Atrial Fibrillation in an Emergency Department of a University Hospital
Mr Abdul Jabbar
PB 15: Service Evaluation of Suspected Scaphoid Injury Management Pathway
Mr Patrick Dissman
PB 16: Current use of Whole-Body Computed Tomography for Trauma patients in UK Emergency Departments
Dr Christopher Smith
PB 17: Reducing the Time to Critical Interventions for Major Trauma Patients at a Regional Neurosurgical Centre
Dr Derek Hicks
PB 18: Clinical Applications of Handheld Ultrasonography at Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (H.E.M.S) Sydney
Dr Tom Lupton
PB 19: Prehospital Emergency Anaesthesia: Current Practice in UK Prehospital Services
Dr Alastair Newton
PB 20: Digital Nerve Blocks with Epinephrine – Is there a Role in the Emergency Department?
Miss Rhian Farquharson
PB 21: Falls and Fragility Fractures in the Emergency Department. A UK Postal Survey of Current Practice and Compliance with National Guidelines
Dr Martin Kelsey
PB 22: ED Evaluation and Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain
Mr Abdul Jabbar
PB 23: Observing and Reacting - A comparison of MEWS and Traffic Light Track and Trigger Systems within the Emergency Department
Dr Susan Dorrian
PB 24: Do Gun-Shot Wounds to the Chest and/or Abdomen Always Require Surgical Intervention?
Dr Jonathan Behar
PB 25: Electrical Cardioversion in the Emergency Department (ED)
Dr Vazeer Ahmed
PB 26: Both Ends Against the Middle: Equestrian Injuries in a Rural DGH
Dr Rob Perry
PB 27: An NHS Critical Care nurses’ Experience of Working at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan – It’s Nothing Like M.A.S.H”
Mr Chris Ellis
PB 28: Statistical Process Control to Assess the Impact of Process Change within the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service: Guidelines for the Transport of the Critically Ill Adult
Ms Jennifer Adams
PB 29: Blowin’ in the Wind: Injuries Caused by Strong wind in the Mountains of Snowdonia
Dr Linda Dykes
PB 30: Can Paramedics Apply ive Immobilisation of the Cervical Spine in Blunt Trauma? A Systematic Review of the Literature
Dr Christopher Smith
PB 31: Sticks and Stones May Break your Bones but Knobkerries May Kill You! A Discussion on Assault in South Africa
Dr Tamsin Ribbons
PB 32: Audit of a New Emergency Department CT Head Request Proforma
Dr Edward Pink
PB 33: Use of Ultrasound to Confirm Posterior Sternoclavicular Joint Dislocation
Dr Hooi-Ling Harrison
PB 34: Bilateral Spontaneous AchillesTendinitis and Rupture: A Case Report and Review of Literature
Dr Balakrishna Valluru
PB 35: Symptomatology and Outcomes in Patients with Mephedrone Toxicity in a City Centre Emergency Department: A Case Series Report
Dr Janos Peter Baombe
PB 36: Emergency Department Crowding: Developing an Operational Definition Using a Delphi Study
Ms Kathleen Beniuk
PB 37: Evaluating Patients for Pulmonary Embolism. How should we Assess Clinical Probability?
Dr Kerstin Hogg
PB 38: Physician Assistants and Emergency Medicine
Dr David Kuhns
PB 39: Ice Ice Baby – The Impact of the Coldest UK Winter for 30 Years on Nottingham University Hospital
Dr Jaimie Coleman
PB 40: The Impact of Foundation Training on Staff and Services: The Views and Experiences of Postgraduate Education Stakeholders and Staff in the Emergency Department
Mr Colin O’Keefe
PB 41: The Predictive Value of the GRACE and TIMI Scores in Patients with Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome but a Normal or Non-Diagnostic ECG
Professor Steve Goodacre
PB 42: Rushing, Cheating or Better Flow: Is The Ability to Meet the Four-Hour Target Associated With Increased Disposal Activity Just Before the Deadline?
Professor Sue Mason
PB 43: Developing an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for Assessing the Practical Skills Competence of Undergraduate Medical Students in Emergency Medicine
Dr Jonathan Acheson
PB 44: Intraosseous Access – Which Lasts Best?
Miss Nicola McCullough
PB 45: A Model of a United States Military and Civilian Trauma Partnership: Synergy and Bidirectional Learning United States Air Force Medical Service and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Dr Sidney Brevard
PB 46: Patient Attendances at UK Field Hospital, Afghanistan, During Peak Activity 2009
Ms Ida Helsoe
PB 47: A Good Target? Clinically Driven Targets at a Local Levels-CQUINS to Improve Patient Care and Finesse Flow
Dr Chris Turner
PB 48: Should we Test for Tetanus Immunity in the Emergency Department?
Dr Jane McVicar
PB 49: Digit Preference Bias in Emergency Department Departure Times is Alive and Well
Professor Sue Mason
PB 50: Communication and Knowledge Transfer in Emergency Care Teams: Can we Improve the Quality of Pre-Hospital Handovers?
Dr Stephen Murray
PB 51: Radiologist Delivered FAST in Military Trauma
Miss Nicola McCullough
PB 52: The Epidemiology of Blast Lung Injury During Recent Military Conflicts: A Retrospective Database Review of Cases Presenting to Deployed Military Hospitals, 2003-2009.
Dr Jason Smith
PB 53: Unscheduled Return Visits within One Week to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary's Emergency Department
Miss Sally-Anne Wilson
PB 54: Teams Under Pressure - An Interview Study with Staff in the Emergency Department
Dr Lynsey Flowerdew
PB 55: Multi-Detector CT (MDCT) in Nontraumatic Acute Abdominal Pain
Dr Arif Parambath
PB 56: Assessment of CT Reporting Times for Emergency Department Requests
Mr Abdul Jabbar
PB 57: Prevalence of Snoring in Patients Presenting Acutely to Hospital and Relation to Health Status on Admission
Dr Alexandra Hogan
PB 58: Those in Peril on the Sea: The Maritime Work of UK Military Search & Rescue (SAR) Helicopters
Dr Linda Dykes
PB 59: Understanding Patient Satisfaction and What Experiences of Receiving Care Patients Value in their Health Care Providers: Results from the NEECAP Trial of Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs)
Ms Patricia Coleman
PB 60: The SAR Side: UK Military Search & Rescue (SAR) Medical Activity
Dr Linda Dykes
PB 61: Implementing Evidence Based Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome in the Emergency Department
Dr David Robinson
PB 62: IT and Medical Errors: Improving the Accuracy of X-ray Interpretation in the Emergency Department
Dr David Robinson
PB 63: Therapy Provision in Accident and Emergency and the Medical Assessment Unit at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs Nicky Hill
PB 64: 999 Where the Road Don’t Go: Streamlining the Emergency Services Response to Inaccessible Incidents
Dr Linda Dykes
PB 65: Training for Acute Primary Health Care in a Hostile Environment
Sqn Ldr Kristian Mears
PB 66: Effectiveness of the Introduction of a Pain Stamp on Pain Score Recording and Analgesia Administration
Dr Geraldine Leonard
PB 67: Staff Perceptions of a 'Lean' Change Project in an Emergency Department
Mr Frank Coffey
PB 68: How has the Licensing Act (2003) Effected the Presentation of Violent Assaults to a Cambridgeshire Emergency Department? An Observational Study
Dr Adrian Boyle
PB 69: The use of Bedside Transthoracic Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department: A Review of the Literature
Dr Janos Peter Baombe
PB 70: The Bradford Syncope Service A Dedicated Service for the Assessment and Management of Patients Presenting with Syncope to Emergency Department and Primary Care. A Review of the Process
Dr Arshid Khan
PB 71: Homeless Patients and the Emergency Department - A Canadian Perspective
Mr Joe Tyler
PB 72: Would Major Trauma Casualties from Snowdonia Benefit from Access to a Regional Trauma Centre?
Dr Linda Dykes
PB 73: Donor Transplant Co-Ordinator: Part of the ED Team
Dr Richard Hall
PB 74: Physician Assistants and Military Medical Service
Dr David Kuhns
PB 75: Mandatory Triage does not Prevent Delays in Recognition of Acutely Ill Patients
Professor Ellen Weber
PB 76: The Influence of Temperature and Humidity on Emergency Department Syncope Attendances
Miss Claire Anderson
PB 77: A University Hospital Experience in Reducing Unnecessary Discharge Analgesia Prescribing
Dr Melissa Livingston
PB 78: Clinical Value of Blood Cultures in the ED: Does this Expensive Routine Investigation Change Patient’s Management?
Mr Nigel D’Souza
PB 79: “Did not Wait” Emergency Department Attendances: Who are they, and do they Return?
Dr Adelle Fishlock
PB 80: Emergency Room Architecture of the Military Hospital: Corridor Versus Arena Style
Navy Lieutenant Ibrahim Arziman
PB 81: A Prospective Study on Complaints against Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Providers
Ms Ann De Cleene
PB 82: An Effective Way of Implementing Safer Sedation in the Emergency Department
Dr Suzy Connor
PB 83: Immediate Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Dr Jennifer Freeston
PB 84: Experiences from the “Emergency Care for Trauma” Course for Support of Health System in Afghanistan as a NATO ISAF Medical Force
Dr Ibrahim Arziman
PB 85: Assessing Tetanus Status in the Emergency Department: A National Postal survey of Current Practice
Dr Martin Kelsey
PB 86: Can CIS Scores be Used Pre-Hospital to Patients for Admission to a Small Country Hospital?
Dr Kashif Samin
PB 87: Emergency Department Attendances- What do GP's Really want to know?
Dr John Gray
PB 88: The Implications of a Central Hypogastric Area Examination for Women with Acute Abdomen
Dr Ming-Cheh Ou
PB 89: Pulmonary Embolism in the Elderly: Clinical Aspects and the Follow-up
Dr Yen-Yi Feng
PB 90: “I’m Going to Learn how to Run Quick.” Exploring Violence Directed Towards Staff in the Emergency Department
Ms Emma Knowles
PB 91: How an Audit of Blood Test Ordering in an Emergency Department Led to Saving the Hospital £55,900 per Year
Dr Kate Goyder
PB 92: The Diagnostic Rate of Trifascicular Block in the Emergency Department
Dr Gurpreet Jutley
PB 93: Does the Presence of a Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officer Improve Ambulance Turnaround Times in the Emergency Department?
Dr James Crampton
PB 94: Too Young to have a Myocardial Infarction?
Dr Gurpreet Jutley
PB 95: Medical Consequences of Patients Taken to the Emergency Department of a Military Hospital from Turkish National Emergency Medicine System (EMS) at a Metropol City
Dr Ibrahim Arziman
PB 96: Can Emergency Physicians Interpret Chest Radiographs Accurately?
Dr Arshid Khan
PB 97: Anaesthetic Nurses Add Quality in Emergency Care
Senior Nursing Officer Claus Bakke
PB 98: Delays in Rapid Sequence Intubation: A Case Series from the Emergency Department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Mr Charles Rich
PB 99: How to Measure Triage - Defining a Gold Standard for the T1 Battle Casualty
Dr Ryan Ewbank
PB 100: The Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Presentation to Accident and Emergency (A&E) with Traumatic Injuries in Dundee over a Three Month Period
Mr Ross Dolan
PB 101: An Evidence Based and Cost Effective Protocol in the Management of Children Presenting with Acute Gastroenteritis to the Emergency Department
Dr Danielle Hall
PB 102: How useful is a Routine Chest X-Ray in the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome?
Dr Rama Govindan
PB 103: Lower Limb Traumatic Amputation – The Importance of Pelvic Binding for Associated Pelvic Fractures in Blast Injury
Dr Alexandra Cross
PB 104: Contrasting Approaches: The Role of Oral Contrast in Imaging the Abdomen Following Blunt Trauma. A Comparative Study
Dr Morten Draegebo
PB 105: Can Expiratory Chest Radiographs Aid Emergency Department Junior Doctors in the Diagnosis of Suspected Pneumothorax?
Dr Aaron Milligan
PB 106: A Systematic Review of Clinical Decision Rules in the Management of Adult Minor Head Injury
Dr Alastair Pickering
PB 107: Therapeutic Hypothermia in Post Cardiac Arrest Patients: The Welsh Experience
Dr Andrew Lightfoot
PB 108: Chest X-Ray in the Feverish Child, have NICE guidelines Suggested the Best Indication for CXR in the Feverish child?
Dr Jamal Mortazavi
PB 109: What's in your Shock Pack?
Dr Helen Mansfield
PB 110: Validation of the ROSE MI Rule: is Troponin Necessary in Isolated Syncope?
Mr James Varley
PB 111: A One Year Review of Children with Head Injuries Presenting to a Childrens Emergency Department
Dr Damian Roland
PB 112: Ambulance Crews’ Attitudes towards Working with Pre-Hospital Doctors in the Field
Dr Richard Lyon
PB 113: A Retrospective Case Series Analysis in the use of the PESI Score
Dr Alistair McIlwee
PB 114: How well does the Triage Sieve Predict the Need for Life or Limb Saving Intervention in Military Trauma?
Dr Ryan Ewbank
PB 115: Difficulties Identifying Metallic Foreign Bodies on OP HERRICK
Capt Emma Cowley
PB 116: Community Acquired Pneumonia: Remember the Virus
Dr Darragh Shields
PB 117: Haemostatic Agents in Penetrating Trauma: Gimmick or Life Saver? A Systematic Review
Dr Stuart Reid
PB 118: Admission Troponin Expedites Transfer to Cardiology Wards
Dr Colin Kong
PB 119: Can you rely on Physical Examination Findings Following Thoracic Trauma to Identify Serious Pathology, and what does the Routine Chest Radiograph Add?
Dr Tamsin Ribbons
PB 120: Immigration Trends and Translation use in the ED: A Review of the Data at Sheffield Children's Hospital
Dr Roger Dalton
PB 121: ARCTIC: Acuity Scoring Relating to Mortality Outcome in Immediate Care
Miss Rebecca Hyde
PB 122: Paediatric Headaches: A Cause for Concern?
Dr Roger Dalton
PB 123: Concomitant Foot and Ankle Fractures in Minor Trauma – Do they Occur?
Dr Shalini Wijesuriya
PB 124: Under-Recognition of Anaphylaxis in a Paediatric Emergency Department
Dr Nicholas Sargant
PB 125: Bubble Trouble
Dr Stephan Fordham
PB 126: Changing Times Regarding Assault and Knife Crime
Mr Mike Wilson
PB 127: Can we Apply the San Francisco Syncope Rule (SFSR) to Avoid Hospital Admissions?
Mr Wilson Fung
PB 128: Potential of Outpatient Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
DR Rama Govindan
PB 129: Major Incident Awareness Across Wales NHS Trusts
Dr Joseph Hobson
PB 130: Bone Protection Assessment and Treatment for Fragility Fractures Presenting to Emergency Departments
Dr Sarah Hazleman
PB 131: Whole Body CT Imaging in Polytrauma Patients at James Cook University Hospital
Mr Alister Oliver
PB 132: Collapse? Cause is not Enough
Mr Dave Paradise
PB 133: Post Concussive Syndrome after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Is it Predictable?
Dr Farooq Pasha
PB 134: Stroke – A Challenge for the Emergency department
Dr Rama Govindan
PB 135: Use of Chaperones in Intimate Examinations within the Emergency Department
Dr Roshan Vijayan
PB 136: Ottawa Knee Rule: Does it Reduce the Number of X-Rays taken in the Emergency Room in the UK?
Dr Rama Govindan
PB 137: Training of Junior Doctors in Emergency Thoracotomy in the United Kingdom
Dr Mohammad Ansari
PB 138: Clinical Features of Food Induced Anaphylaxis in an Emergency Department of Southeastern Coast Area of Korea
Dr Minhoo Seo
PB 139: Evaluation of Enhanced Simulation in Swedish BATLS Training
Wg Cdr Lars Lundberg
PB 140: BestBet: Scaphoid Versus Colles Cast for the Treatment of a Confirmed Scaphoid Fracture
Dr Katy Guy
PB 141: Evaluating the use of the Emergency Department IT System in Assault Surveillance
Dr Jennifer Cherry
PB 142: Audit of Compliance with National Guidelines for Emergency Management of Open Tibia and Fibula Fractures in a Tertiary Referral Centre
Mr Alexander Goodson
PB 143: The Role of protein S-100 marker testing in the management of minor head injuries in the Emergency Department
Dr Rachael Morris-Smith
PB 144: Recognition and Management of Severe Sepsis in the Emergency Department
Captain Marcela Aguirre
PB 145: Profile of Injuries Arising from the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake: The First 72 h
Dr Anjum Qadri
PB 146: Implementing the Surviving Sepsis Campaign in a District General Hospital
Dr Gareth Hardy
PB 147: Return of Biers Block: A Safe, Effective Way to Manipulate Distal Radius Fractures in the Emergency Department
Dr Kirsty McWhirter
PB 148: Adequacy of Cervical Spine Radiographs in Trauma Patients
Dr Kieran Foley
PB 149: Is the Paediatric Appendicitis Score a Useful Discriminator between Acute Appendicitis and Other Pathologies in the Paediatric emergency department?
Dr Julie-Ann Maney
PB 150: An Audit and Review into Current Scaphoid Practice in the Emergency Department (ED), Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. Time to get Rid of follow up Radiography?
Dr Sachin Mandalia
PB 151: 12/12 School Kids Enjoy Emergency Planning Gaming
Dr Jane Mooney
PB 152: Penetrating Trauma in Birmingham, West Midlands
Dr Rama Govindan
PB 153: A Systematic Literature Review into the Treatment of Acute Lateral Ligament Injuries of the Ankle
Dr Alister McIlwee
PB 154: Pre-Hospital Events: Reducing Local Ambulance and Emergency Department Workloads
Dr Colm Watters
PB 155: Impact of Climactic Extremes (ICE) Audit
Dr Scott Beattie
PB 156: Winter Breaks: The Hidden Cost of the Cold Snap
Dr Roger Dalton
PB 157: Prophylactic Antibiotics to Prevent Toxic Shock Syndrome in Paediatric Burns
Mr Mustafa Kendeel
PB 158: Transient Renal Dysfunction Secondary to Oral Creatine Supplemantation in a Non Athlete: A Case Report and Review of Literature
Dr Balakrishna Valluru
PB 159: Cervical Spine Fracture Secondary to Penetrating Injury with a Knife.
Dr Oliver Bannon
PB 160: Earthquake Injuries and the Use of Ketamine for Surgical Procedures: The Kashmir Experience
Dr Anjum Qadri
PB 161: Do you Read me...? The Safety of Emergency Department Discharge Instructions
Dr Anna Buckley
PB 162: Does the LUCAS Device Result in Increased Injury During CPR?
Dr David Menzies
PB 163: Ketamine Procedural Sedation – Patient Satisfaction and Long Term Follow up
Dr John O’Neill
PB 164: Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism - Does use of a Proforma Increase Adherence to BTS Guidance: A Prospective Audit
Dr Nicole McLean
PB 165: Fractal Dimension (df) and Time to the Gel Point (TGP). New Biomarkers for Determining Clot Quality in a Model of Haemodilution
Dr Sendhil Kumar
PB 166: Optimising the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome
Dr Stephen Fordham
PB 167: "Nil for Lysis” – ECG Documentation and Accuracy in the Emergency Department
Dr Daniel Boden
PB 168: The Search for Reversible Causes in Patients Suffering Fatal Cardiac Arrests: Are we Getting it right?
Dr Neel Bhanderi
PB 169: The use of Clinical Care Guidelines by Doctors in UK Emergency Departments
Miss Nicola Johnson
PB 170: The Role of the Text Factoid in Achieving Foundation Year Two Competencies
Dr Holly Morris
PB 171: Self-Harm Patients: Time to be NICE?
Dr Laura Elder
PB 172: Workforce Planning: Audit of Working Patterns in Senior Emergency Medicine Trainees
Dr Kirsty McWhirter
PB 173: The Manchester Triage System in Head Injury: Beyond NICE?
Dr Saif Al-Nahhas
PB 174: Evaluation of a Global Trigger Tool in Detecting Harm in Emergency Department Patients
Mr David Wotherspoon
PB 175: Role of Bedside ED Ultrasound in the Management of Acute SOB
Dr Muhammad Azam Majeed
PB 176: PEPSE Max – Maximisng PEPSE Availability and Uptake in the Emergency Department
Dr Andrew Smith
PB 177: The Incidence of Heat Illness on Deployed Troops on Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan 2003-2008
Dr Sophia De Maria
PB 178: 6/7 Year Emergency Medicine Human Patient Simulation Delivery Plan
Dr Libby Thomas
PB 179: Triage - Time for a New Perspective?
Dr Mark Harrison
PB 180: The Significance of Marginal D Dimer Elevations in Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism
Dr Wojciech Sawicki
PB 181: Back Pain – Are we Missing Spinal Tuberculosis?
Dr Rama Govindan
PB 182: Communication at Emergency Department Discharge: A Patient Perspective
Dr Anna Buckley
PB 183: Impact of an Ageing Population on the Emergency Department
Dr Nithin Narayan
PB 184: Have Workforce Changes within Emergency Medicine Affected X-Ray Audit Data
Dr Kirsty McWhirter
PB 185: Nonallergic Angioedema in the Emergency Department
Dr Iram Razzaq
PB 186: The Impact of Frequent Attenders on a UK Emergency Department
Miss Alexandra Dent
PB 187: Unplanned Emergency Department Returns: An Index of Patient Safety and Quality of Care
Dr Reem Daniels
PB 188: Incident Command and Rescue on a Building Collapse
Dr Ibrahim Arziman
PB 189: An Innovative Tool to Help with Human Patient Simulation Debriefing
Dr Libby Thomas
PB 190: Pro-Active Identification of Smokers, and Referral to Stop Smoking Services as Part of an Emergency Department-Based Health Promotion Programme
Dr Najeeb Rahman
PB 191: A Human Patient Simulation Course for ST4’s in Emergency Medicine
Dr Libby Thomas
PB 192: E-Health Initiative – The Development of a ‘Special Patient Registry’ for Nephrology Patients in the Emergency Department
Dr Issaam Oozeerally
PB 193: Why & how to Monitor CO2 during Conscious Sedation
Dr Muhammad Azam Majeed
PB 194: Prospective Observational Pilot Trial for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia using Ketofol (Ketamine/Propofol Combination) vs. Fentanyl and Propofol
Dr Nellis Van Zyl Smit
PB 195: Single Examination Ultrasound Scanning in the Investigation of Suspected Deep Venous Thrombosis. Is it Safe?
Dr Aaron Milligan
PB 196: The Haemolysis of Emergency Department Blood Samples: An Observational Study to Determine Associated Factors
Dr Laura McGregor
PB 197: The Utilisation of a Patient Care Pathway to Optimise the Management of Patients with Low-Risk Gastro-Intestinal Bleed within an Emergency Department Clinical Decision Unit
Dr Cian McDermott
PB 198: Eyes Down for an Empty House: the Perceived Experiences of Anaesthetic Trainees Called to Accident and Emergency Departments
Dr Kate Glennon
PB 199: The Management of the Isolated Sternal Fracture: Finding that Broken Heart
Dr Anahita Dua
PB 200: Trends in Deliberate Self Poisoning and Emergency Room Management in a Zululand Hospital, South Africa
Dr Helen Davies
PB 201: The Relationship between Deprivation and Alcohol Related Presentation to Accident and Emergency (A&E) in Ninewells Hospital Dundee over a Three Month Period
Mr Ross Dolan
PB 202: Mephedrone: A Case Series and Review of Management
Dr Wojciech Sawicki
PB 203: Mapping the Emergency Medicine Curriculum to Human Patient Simulation
Dr Libby Thomas
PB 204: A Retrospective Review of the Epidemiology of Adult Poisonings Admitted to the Short Stay Ward of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Emergency Department in 2009
Miss Alison Teo
PB 205: H1N1 Immunization amongst Emergency Department Staff
Dr Wojciech Sawicki
PB 206: The Role of Emergency Medicine in Coronary Heart Disease Prevention and Tobacco Control Interventions
Dr Najeeb Rahman
PB 207: Review of Emergency Department Presentations Secondary to Ingestion of Headshop Products
Dr Rachel Conway
PB 208: Improving Compliance with Patient at Risk (PAR) Score to Trigger Escalation of Care in the ED
Dr Lauren Fraser
PB 209: The use of D-Dimer Testing in the Emergency Setting
Mr Chrsitopher Lawrence
PB 210: Legal Highs or Emergency Department Lows?: Could the “Bubble” Burst with Illegalisation?
Dr Emma Greenwood
PB 211: Psychiatric Review of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department
Dr Rachel Voller
PB 212: Internet Based Teaching as a Learning Tool
Dr Colm Watters
PB 213: ST Elevation MI in the Setting of Radiological Pneumoperitoneum
Dr Adeel Akhtar
PB 214: Foreign Body Removal from the Cornea- A Simple Training Model
Dr Chris McCullough
PB 215: Otago Rescue Helicopter, New Zealand: The Value of Out of Programme Training Opportunities for UK Emergency Medicine Trainees
Dr Laura McGregor
PB 216: Mephedrone Toxicity
Dr Luke Regan
PB 217: Significance of Red Flag Signs in Acute Back Pain Admissions from the Emergency Department
Mr Mohamed Zubair Farook
PB 218: Does Utilization of the “Sepsis Six" Tasks Increase Compliance with the First Surviving Sepsis Bundle? A Completed Audit Loop in an Irish Emergency Department
Dr Aileen McCabe
PB 219: Diltiazem or Digoxin for Rapid Atrial Fibrilation: Fast and Furious?
Dr Farooq Pasha
PB 220: Maintaining Basic Anaesthetic Skill Competence as an Emergency Trainee: A Pilot Study
Dr Carl McQueen
PB 221: Emergency Department Discharge Letter Audit
Dr Anna Buckley
PB 222: Improving Corneal Donation in an Urban Emergency Department
Dr Andrew Paterson
PB 223: The Role of D-Dimer in the Management of DVT
Dr Adeel Akhtar
PB 224: Non-Therapeutic Interventional Research in Paediatric Trauma: What do Parents Think?
Dr Sujatha Rajan
PB 225: The Paediatric Observation Priority Score – Rationalising Illness Identification in a Childrens Emergency Department
Dr Damian Roland
PB 226: Comparision of Two Ion Techniques of ProSealTM Laryngeal Mask Airway by Unskilled Personnel in Children
Dr Jin Young Hwang
PB 227: Influence of Light Level on the Road Casualty Incidence of Schoolchildren in Great Britain
Dr Adam Yates
PB 228: A Top to Bottom Review of Gastroenteritis in Children in the Emergency Department and Implementation of NICE Guidelines
Dr Helen Mollard
PB 229: Are we Giving Parents Enough Information when Discharging Children from the Emergency Department? Results from a District General Hospital
Dr James Griffiths
PB 230: The use of Coagulation Screening in the Paediatric Emergency Department
Dr Fleur Cantle
PB 231: Adherence to National Burn Care Review Referral Criteria in a Paediatric Emergency Department
Mr Aidan Rose
PB 232: Assessment of Potential Benefits of Commercially Available Testing for Pandemic H1N1 Influenza in a Paediatric Population
Dr Mark Lyttle
PB 233: Social Deprivation and its Association with Penetrating Trauma in Children
Dr Sujatha Rajan
PB 234: Is the Initial Respiratory Rate of a Child Presenting to A&E a Predictor of Disease Severity?
Ms Ysabelle Del Monte
PB 235: Parent Satisfaction and the Influence of Waiting Times in the Paediatric Emergency Department
Dr Fleur Cantle
PB 236: Paediatric Poisoning in the ED: Reflections on Practice to Streamline Service
Dr Carl McQueen
PB 237: The Importance of an Appropriate Clerking Proforma when Assessing Young Children with Fever in the ED in Line with the NICE Guideline
Dr Amutha Anpananthar
PB 238:
UK Foundation Doctors' Awareness of Paediatric Non-Accidental Injuries: A Sudy of Two Trusts' Cohorts
Mr Tarek Boutefnouchet
PB 239: Resource Implications in the Management of Penetrating Trauma in Children
Dr Sujatha Rajan
PB 240: Introduction of Intranasal Diamorphine for Treatment of Severe Pain in Children – Are we using it Appropriately?
Dr Katy Guy
PB 241: Audit of the Bristol Paediatric Early Warning Tool Observation Charts
Dr Kiera Meade
PB 242: Case Report of SCIWORA
Dr Sujatha Rajan