The aim of this survey is to establish if European hospitals and in particular their Emergency Departments are using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Global Trigger Tool as an instrument of risk management and clinical governance for evaluating and reducing errors and adverse events.

I would be most grateful if you can spare a little of your time to reply to the questions before 20th May 2016.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/IHIGTT

Thank you in advance

Dr Roberta Petrino
Chair, EUSEM Education Committee
President-Elect, EUSEM

We wish to invite EM trainees and young EM specialists from across Europe to apply as a candidate for our EUSEM Young Doctors 2 week fellowship in non-invasive ventilation. During these 2 weeks the participants will get profound teaching in non-invasive ventilation through high-quality theoretical sessions and live teaching on emergency department patients.

It will take place in autumn or winter 2016 in Andrea Hospital Vercelli, Italy, under the auspices of prof. dr. Roberta Petrino, president-elect of EUSEM. Dates will be chosen in consultation with the participants.

2 participants will be chosen after a selection process.

See here for more details

The scientific programme for Vienna is now online at:

http://eusemcongress.org/en/scientific-programme/at-a-glance

We offer a scholar ship of one year duration starting from early 2017 to a doctor with emergency medicine background. The required commitment would be research, teaching and clinical activities at the Emergency Department of Careggi University Hospital.

The ED of the Careggi University Hospital, with its 3600 square meters, is one of the largest in Europe, is a trauma center for the centre of Italy and also the referral center for acute stroke and acute coronary syndromes. In the ED are managed an average of 110000 adult patients per year and there are a total of 80 beds comprehensive of a 10 beds “red code” area with possibility of invasive monitoring and invasive ventilation, a 4 bed sub intensive care unit with possibility of non invasive ventilation and a 22 beds short stay/admission unit.

The ED is highly committed to training of doctors, nurses and students and to research activities with an average of 10 publications per year in peer-reviewed journals.

If someone is interested please contact me for further informations

Yours,
Peiman Nazerian
Dr Peiman Nazerian
Emergency Medicine staff physician
Phone number 0039 3396122448
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Fellowships in Non-Invasive Ventilation Awarded

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Heather Wieman from Norway and Dr. Dalip Kumar from the UK have been awarded Fellowships in non0invasive ventilation. Read full details here

Differential diagnosis of patients with acute chest pain – What can biomarkers contribute?
ACCA webinar

Monday 12 September 2016 from 18:00 to 19:00CEST

http://www.escardio.org/Congresses-&-Events/Webinars/Acute-cardiovascular-care/Differential-diagnosis-of-patients-with-acute-chest-pain-what-can-biomarkers-contribute

FirstReceivers.ca is an open, free, virtual community for health care professionals who will receive disaster victims.  It was established with support from the Canadian federal government.

Membership is open to all. It has no national or professional boundaries other than members being dedicated to improving health care delivery in a disaster.  FirstReceivers allows members to share resources, start discussion threads, provide/receive teaching sessions and find/network with likeminded individuals.  The community is divided into subgroups of interest such as Emergency Physicians, EMS,  Mass Gathering, Public Health, etc. Members define their profile and as a result get mailing and resources tailored to them.

You can now read the report about the EUSEM Young Doctors fellowship on non-invasive ventilation, written by Dr Heather Wieman here

A new book has been published in the topic of Emergency Urology.

Written by: David Thurtle BMedSci BMBS MRCS, Suzanne Biers BSc MBBS MD FRCS (Urol), Michal Sut Lek Med MMedSci FRCS (Urol), James Armitage BSc MBBS MD FRCS (Urol)

 Urology is a specialty that notoriously receives little attention in medical school, yet it makes up a sizeable portion of the workload in emergency departments, primary care and hospital wards. Emergency urology conditions can often be managed without the immediate involvement of a urology specialist, but require the appropriate knowledge and skills, which is the principal aim of this textbook.

Emergency urology is often covered very superficially alongside general surgery or in excessive detail within voluminous urology textbooks. This book is different: it consists of concise, well-structured chapters, with an accessible and easily digestible style. The content is clinically-based and is illustrated with radiological and clinical images to highlight and concisely convey essential information. Each topic and chapter has been written by an expert on that subject.

This book will appeal to all doctors, including those rotating through surgical and emergency medicine specialties, and those clinicians approaching professional examinations worldwide. Medical students on urology or emergency medicine placements, who are studying for their exams, will also find it invaluable. In addition, primary care doctors and nurses in urology, surgery, emergency medicine and other specialties may also appreciate the clinically relevant content of this book.

The authors are all dedicated to education and training, have published extensively, and have years of experience running successful emergency urology courses.

Paperback: £29.99; USD $49.95; EUR Î40; 196pp; ISBN: 978 1910079 42 3

Order online at www.tfmpublishing.com and claim a 20% discount

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A small committee from the EUSEM Education committee and the EMERGE on behalf of the UEMS Section and Board of Emergency medicine has revised the European Curriculum of Emergency medicine to align it to the recent developments of the discipline. The core curriculum exists to identify the knowledge, skills and behaviors that the physician must possess. This naturally changes as the specialty evolves and in the light of experience of using the curriculum to guide training and assessment. This updated curriculum includes new topics or clarifies existing topics where they are relevant or pertinent to current emergency medicine practice.

This allows alignment of the curriculum to the topics tested in the EBEEM (European Board Examination in Emergency Medicine) and ensures that the developing emergency physician knows all the competences required for the scope of practice of emergency medicine.

See the revised curriculum here.