College Standards...

Found another wonderful little document on the college website (actually discovered it quite by accident preparing for a CBD on urinary retention). It summarises the standards set by CEM for the timings of certain investigations and interventions for various conditions, including:

• Asthma
• Dislocated shoulders
• Feverish Children
• Fractured Neck of femur
• Head injury in Adults
• Hand Injury
• Mental Health
• Pain
• Paracetamol OD
• Radiology
• Recording vital signs in Majors and Resus
• Renal Colic
• Retention of Urine
• Safeguarding Children
• Sepsis and Meningitis in Children
• Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in adults
• Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Adults

This has to be mandatory reading for PART B, it is like a one stop shop for writing SAQs! These are basic standards that lend themselves so well to examination.

The document above: Download the clinical standards

Then CEM guidance in general: http://www.collemergencymed.ac.uk/Shop-Floor/Clinical%20Guidelines/