New NICE Sepsis Guidelines

To mark the new NICE Sepsis Guidelines QMC Emergency Department Sepsis Lead Dr Chris Gough came and, with the power of coffee, talked through the new guidance.  

Here is the algorithm Chris is talking us through:

The full NICE guidance (NG51) can be found here.

Sepsis

In this episode Dr Chris Gough, Sepsis Lead at QMC Emergency Department came down to discuss Sepsis and the approach to a patient with presumed sepsis.

Here's the Take Visually graphic for Sepsis:

For more information visit the UK Sepsis Trust website.

Adult Head Injury

Mr Asif Malik joined us to discuss Head Injury in Adults.  

The guidelines mentioned are the NICE Head Injury Guidelines CG 176.

Here's our Take Visually graphic on Head Injury Red Flags:

Asthma

Dr Charley Peal and Dominic Purnell came along to discuss Asthma in this episode of Take Aurally. 

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) Guidelines on asthma can be found here.

Here are our Take Visually notes on Asthma:

Here is the full classification of severity of asthma:

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Acute Coronary Syndrome

In the first ever episode of Take Aurally Dr Craig Douglas came to discuss ACS 

Here are our Take Visually notes on ACS:

As discussed the HEART Score (6 week risk of major coronary event) can be found here and the GRACE Score (admission 6 month mortality for patient with ACS) can be found here

More information on the definition of myocardial infarction can be found here and the brilliant work on the Manchester ACS Risk Score from Professor Rick Body can be found here.

Here is our OHMNHS blog on the MACS score.