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RCEM Annual Scientific Conference 2024 Abstracts

RCEM Rod Little Prize Papers

• 3010 Breathing new life into pain management: a systematic review of nebulised ketamine for pain management (30 September, 2024)

  Daniel Kirk, Emily Whiles, Christopher Whiles
• 2863 Investigating the impact of self-rostering on EM trainee wellbeing and recovery: a national survey (30 September, 2024)

  Alexander Robertson
• 2998 Anatomical injury severity, physiological shock, and the biological response to trauma (30 September, 2024)

  Jennifer Ross, Karim Brohi
• 3026 What does the damage? Exploring the effects of injury severity and injury pattern on trauma patient outcomes (30 September, 2024)

  Jennifer Ross, Karim Brohi
• 2564 Frailty in European emergency departments (FEED): an international cross-section study (30 September, 2024)

  James van Oppen, on behalf of the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine collaborators
• 2705 Clot-astrophy averted – Consideration of VTE prophylaxis following injury (30 September, 2024)

  Tom Wild, Olaoluwa Bolujoko, Euan Douglas

APEM Elizabeth Molyneux Prize Papers

• 2802 Impact of respiratory viral testing on invasive bacterial infection prevalence in febrile infants ≤90 days presenting to emergency care (30 September, 2024)

  Jordan Evans, Etimbuk Umana, Thomas Waterfield, in collaboration with PERUKI
• 2877 Assessing the utility of the new national paediatric early warning system in the emergency department (30 September, 2024)

  Salma Hashim, Robin Marlow
• 2884 ‘PEMthrox’ – A quality improvement project introducing inhaled methoxyflurane for procedural analgesia in a tertiary paediatric emergency department (30 September, 2024)

  Chelcie Jewitt, Joshua Campbell, Hannah Pool
• 2607 Management of paediatric elbow injuries, where’s the equipoise? A UK & Ireland wide international survey of practice (30 September, 2024)

  Patrick Aldridge, Raj Rout, Rachel Roland, Daniel Perry, Mark Lyttle

RCEM Free Papers

• 2961 Little bleeders: characterising a paediatric major haemorrhage population (30 September, 2024)

  Kelly Fernandes, Ross Davenport, Elaine Cole, Charlotte Lindsay
• 2719 Usability and acceptability of ambulatory ECG monitoring in undiagnosed syncope: Insights from the ASPIRED-Q qualitative study (30 September, 2024)

  Alice Pearsons, Matt Reed, Coral Hanson, Ellise Clarke, Caroline Blackstock, Lis Neubeck
• 2995 Assessment of cognitive load in clinicians performing pre-hospital REBOA: development and validation of a novel prehospital assessment tool (30 September, 2024)

  Codey Simmons, Max Sadek, Samy Sadek, Rob Greenhalgh, Robbie Lendrum, Zane Perkins
• 2613 Diagnostic accuracy of the aortic dissection detection risk score alone or with D-dimer for acute aortic syndromes: systematic review and meta-analysis (30 September, 2024)

  Steve Goodacre, Sa Ren, Munira Essat, Abdullah Pandor, Shijie Ren, Mark Clowes, Paolo Bima, Mamoru Toyofuku, Rachel McLatchie, Eduardo Bossone, Sarah Wilson
• 2647 Battle score for risk stratification in a regional trauma unit – A service evaluation (30 September, 2024)

  Paul Adamson, Julie Barlow, Raman Rajendra, Phillipa Russell, Hannah Greenlees

RCEM Lightning Papers

• 2864 Improving first pass success and reducing complications from advanced airway management in the emergency department; a 5-year iterative quality improvement project (30 September, 2024)

  Christopher Ambrose, Daniel Horner, Christopher Taylor, Lola Erinle
• 2518 The prevention of secondary pneumonia and reduction in mortality in adult blunt chest trauma patients: a quality improvement project (30 September, 2024)

  Alice Binbay, Alexandra Danecki, Abhijith Singh
• 2956 Is sodium azide a potential emerging public health concern in the United Kingdom? (30 September, 2024)

  Gillian Cooper, Gray Laurence, Sally Bradberry, Ruben Thanacoody, Aravind Veiraiah
• 2876 The effectiveness of inhaled methoxyflurane compared to procedural sedation for the reduction of acute traumatic limb injuries – a systematic review and meta-analysis (30 September, 2024)

  Joe Dowsing, James Price, Owen Hibberd, Stephen Thomas, Edward Barnard
• 2615 Decision-analytic modelling of strategies for investigating suspected acute aortic syndrome (30 September, 2024)

  Steve Goodacre, Praveen Thokala, Graham Cooper, Robert Hinchliffe, Matthew Reed, Steven Thomas, Sarah Wilson, Catherine Fowler, Valerie Lechene
• 2793 Nettle-induced urticaria treatment study (NUTS): a research training exercise (30 September, 2024)

  Chloe Haigh, Rajendra Raman, Tom Beddis, Paul Bonhomme, Maggie Currer, Daniel Day, Elspeth Pitt, Alexander Robertson, Heather Robertson, Bappa Roy, Jennifer Wood
• 2952 Balint groups for ST3 emergency medicine trainees: evaluating the impact on trainees in transition (30 September, 2024)

  Geoff Haynes, Daniel Darbyshire, Jade Baker, Harriet Kennedy, Rhiannon Conway, Alex Johnson, Richard Parris
• 2778 A service evaluation into factors affecting prehospital emergency anaesthesia outcomes at the North West air ambulance service (30 September, 2024)

  Abigail Laycock, Simon Carley, Robert Evans
• 2866 Implementing a social prescribing service in an emergency department (30 September, 2024)

  Lucy Morris, Sarah Edwards, Frank Coffey
• 2790 Are emergency department staff complying with Clyde emergency medicine departmental protocol on paediatric patients (under 16s) who leave the department before assessment is complete? (30 September, 2024)

  Anna Xuan-Ning Ng, Ossian Newby, Lucy Thomas, Alexandra Turner, Lynn Poole, Matthew Henderson
• 2772 AI assisted reader evaluation in CT head interpretation (AI-REACT): results from a multi-case multi-reader study (30 September, 2024)

  Alex Novak, Abdala Espinosa, Kanika Bhatia, Andrea Romsauerova, Tilak Das, Mariapaola Narbone, Rahul Dharmadhikari, David Lowe, Haris Shuaib, Sarim Ather
• 2935 Thrombolysis in intermediate high-risk pulmonary embolism: a tertiary care versus district general hospital emergency department experience (30 September, 2024)

  Zahra Rahman, Tim Harris, Max Berrill, William Ricketts, Christopher Kabrhel
• 2715 The ten second triage tool – A multi-discipline field test to determine its feasibility (30 September, 2024)

  James Vassallo, Sean Harris, Bryony Dunn, Claire Park, Philip Cowburn, Jason Smith, Dave Bull
• 2553 Diagnostic accuracy of alternative biomarkers for acute aortic syndrome: a systematic review (30 September, 2024)

  Joshua Wren, Steve Goodacre, Abdullah Pandor, Munira Essat, Mark Clowes, Graham Cooper, Robert Hinchliffe, Matthew Reed, Steven Thomas, Sarah Wilson

APEM Lightning Papers

• 2631 Paediatric emergency medicine in the UK – are we meeting the needs of our children today? A descriptive workforce survey 2006–2023 (30 September, 2024)

  Anne Frampton, Rachel Jenner
• 2938 Diagnosing brain tumours in children’s ED – are we getting it right? A retrospective cohort study of investigation pathways at a tertiary centre (30 September, 2024)

  Sophie Blummers, Anna Cairns, Lara Reed, Lisa Or, Millie Richardson, Michael Malley
• 2566 The use and impact of rapid molecular testing for group A streptococcus in a paediatric emergency department (30 September, 2024)

  Charlotte Durand, Beatriz Larru, Shrouk Messahel, Sarah Siner, Kelly Mayes

RCEM Moderated

• 3025 Evaluating a novel referral pathway between general practice and the emergency department via the REACH (Remote Emergency Access Coordination Hub) (30 September, 2024)

  Lopa Banerjee, Shalome Kanagaratnam, Yasmin Hazemi, James Cai, Katy Hannaford
• 2660 Wellbeing interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study (30 September, 2024)

  Andrew Beckham, Nicola Cooper
• 2560 The POISE study: POcus for the Identification of Sarcopenia in Emergency Departments (30 September, 2024)

  Bridget Collins, Eduard Turcuman, Etimbuk Umana, Siobhan Magner, Sive Carey, Ciara Pender, Colm Byrne, Cian McDermott, Deirdre Breslin
• 2851 A study to assess the association between worsening emergency-care target achievement and deprivation on a regional, and local authority, level in England (30 September, 2024)

  Michael Eason
• 2754 Pre-hospital and emergency care cervical spine immobilisation following blunt trauma: a systematic review (30 September, 2024)

  Munira Essat, Anthea Sutton, Gordon Fuller, Stuart Reid, Jason E Smith, Peter Hutchinson, Gavin D Perkins, Mark H Wilson, Fiona Lecky, Abdullah Pandor
• 3028 Establishing a green ED in a Scottish district general hospital (30 September, 2024)

  Ben Evanson, Jennifer Wood, Helen Thompson, Oliver Cargill
• 2576 Enhancing research delivery in the emergency department – The role of embedded research nurse (30 September, 2024)

  Heather Jarman, Rosalie McDonald, Victoria Mummery, Louise Young, Phil Moss
• 2930 The national hip fracture database (NHFD) shows a substantial improvement in the delivery of pain relief to patients presenting to ED with hip fracture in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2023 (30 September, 2024)

  Liza Keating, Antony Johansen, Will Eardley, Elizabeth Fagan
• 2779 Design and delivery of novel regional inter-professional simulation training for EM HSTs taking on the role of trauma team leader within district general hospitals in Northern Ireland (30 September, 2024)

  Christina Mulholland
• 2637 A quality improvement project to reduce time to ECG in patients attending the emergency department with chest pain (30 September, 2024)

  Molly Parrington, Joseph Walsh, Kieran Lall, Christopher McCoy
• 2538 Emergency physicians performing a point of care ultrasound E-point septal separation in the diagnosis of left ventricular systolic dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis (30 September, 2024)

  Michael Perry, Julie Rankin, Simon Richards, Robert Jarman
• 3006 Introduction of a new silver trauma triage tool in a Scottish trauma unit (30 September, 2024)

  Phillipa Russell, Rajendra Raman, Julie Thomson, Catriona Fullarton, Paul Bonhomme, Annabel Butcher, Hannah Greenlees, Amy McCallum
• 3001 REBOA in non-traumatic cardiac arrest: a review of the literature (30 September, 2024)

  Oliver Salwey, David Franklin, Amy Hughes, Max Marsden, Gareth Grier, Danë Goodsman
• 2833 Flumazenil usage within the ED (30 September, 2024)

  Gregor Stark, Scott Clarke, Jonathan Wraight, Aravindan Veiraiah
• 2871 An audit of advice on fitness to drive following TIA (30 September, 2024)

  Abdulrahman Taha
• 2799 ‘Frequent Flyers’ and the emergency department: a review of the current support services and how to improve care (30 September, 2024)

  Bethany Turner, Elizabeth Morris, Andrew Snell