Caroline Leech
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Emergency Medicine Consultant @nhsuhcw 🏥 PHEM Dr @Helimed53 @helimed54 🚁 @wmasmerit 🚑 @NIHR Research Scholar @WarwickCTU 📚
West Midlands, England
Joined December 2013
Speaker line-up coming together really well. Tickets on sale now. More to follow!! https://t.co/ZCB421CzOD
Tickets now open for Resus Science Symposium Jan 2026! Speaker announcements v soon. Cases, novel concepts, thought provoking challenges including ethics of resuscitation, defining expert practice, redefining ‘special circumstances’ plus more!!
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The latest data for Emergency Department performance in England reveals 164,880 patients waited 12 hours or more last month. That’s the second highest number on record for the month of October. It means one in nine patients endured this wait. For the first time, the NHSE data
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13/11/2025 - RCEM says NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care must focus on reducing the longest and most dangerous waits as Emergency Departments head into the depths of winter.
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🙌 We are excited to announce that the next ERC Open Webinar will take place on November 26, 19 Hours, Brussels time. The topic will be 'Highlights from the ERC Resuscitation Guidelines (ALS, Post-resuscitation Care, Special Circumstances, NLS)'. ✅ To know more and register,
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📢 New programme launched for #RCEMAC26! Check it out here: https://t.co/LEsxuwoQC6 Explore four dynamic tracks covering CPD and research — there’s something for everyone. Highlights include: 📅 Day 1 – Research for All 📅 Day 2 – Management Challenges 📅 Day 3 – AI & Digital
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Prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy: a practice review | Emergency Medicine Journal
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Management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in a pregnant patient is challenging, both logistically and emotionally. This review explores the adaptations to resuscitation in pregnancy; the...
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REBOA = higher mortality (47% vs 36%), more transfusions, longer time to OR. No survival benefit. Check the new study by Hatchimonji et al. https://t.co/RnQGoCdJXI and Jansen's commentary https://t.co/s3qqRcWi6C.
@jhatchmd @dianehaddadmd @pdowzicky @markseamonmd
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2025 DAS guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult airway published today in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. #airway #difficultairway #intubation #anaesthesia #anesthesia
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🎬 Introducing “This is the place for Emergency Medicine” 🎬 This powerful new video features real people working in emergency departments across Coventry and Manchester, showcasing the heart of our specialty through real life voices and experiences. This film seeks to promote
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Peripartum cardiomyopathy is now the leading cause of maternal death in many parts of the world. A new Seminar summarises current knowledge of peripartum cardiomyopathy genetics, pathophysiology, diagnostic approaches, medical management, and outcome: https://t.co/Gn5lciA0Qb
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🚨 Novembers Papers of the Month! 🩸 Pre-hospital trauma lines 💨 AIRWAYS-2 impact on OHCA practice 🚗 Delphi on trapped patient care ⏱️ Time-critical injuries in entrapment 🎧 Listen: 🎙️ https://t.co/JllNsEB79d 🎧 https://t.co/ipr8fDYKCi 🌐 https://t.co/RNpmm817fz
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🚨 Our new Extrication Course is now LIVE! Built on the latest evidence from the EXIT project, this 2hr CPD course is for anyone responding to road collisions — fire, police, ambulance, highways. Let’s stop working in silos. Start here 👉 🔗 https://t.co/myxgyJKqS5
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‘The most important part of any system is often the person who keeps it from breaking today’ This is our EM clinicians who do this day in day out. Design as Repair Superb blog, requires reading for front line teams @RCollEM
Love this from Stevan. It really speaks to every doc and nurse who has held a failing department together when all the policies (and policy makers) are safely tucked up in bed. We really need to consider this approach. @rcollem @RCEMpresident
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Prehospital critical care now included! Thrilled that our ILCOR systematic review has informed the new guidelines 🙌 https://t.co/LWmPBRlkZ8
@rachelgemma90 @LeechCaroline @quincy516 @yeung_joyce
👏 The Wait is over 🚀 The 'ERC 2025 Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation Guidelines' is Released. 🫀 Click the link to know more 👉 https://t.co/bYVaIUtWJU
#ERC #CPR #Guidelines2025 #ERCGuidelines #savelives #RESUS25
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🚨 The #Trauma2030 Programme is LIVE Two days. Global experts. One mission — to shape the next decade of trauma care. From damage control to digital innovation — discover what’s ahead.
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#October2025 🫀 We need to talk about Annie 🫀 For decades, millions have learnt CPR using Resusci-Annie – a white, slim, blond female manikin created in the 1960s. But how well does Annie reflect the people we actually resuscitate in real life? @ResusCouncilUK @RCollEM In a
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October’s Papers Podcast •A-line placement in arrest in ED •Paediatric ketamine sedation •Pulse checks or ultrasound in arrest? https://t.co/JllNsEBEYL
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"Because we’re all terrified—of missing something rare, of complaints, of being the name on the “learning event”—we end up immobilised. Or worse, we over investigate." We need a culture shift from defensive practice to clinical courage https://t.co/8pIvKNlYgg
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We need a culture shift from defensive practice to clinical courage, writes Iain Beardsell Emergency medicine in the UK and across the world is in trouble. This is not news, I know. We’re overwhelmed...
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The latest MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care report on the care of women who died during or up to a year after the end of pregnancy between 2021 and 2023 released today. Read more: https://t.co/tvPecNUHHL
@marianfknight @npeu_oxford @oxford_ndph @Ox_wrh
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TAAS are advertising 2 new development posts for regional ST3+ doctors who would like to explore or kickstart a career in PHEM. 🤗 Full JD is via the link ⬇️
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🧵 Part 2. Heterogeneity vs Colliders in Critical Care RCTs 1. The puzzle Critical care RCTs keep failing. The usual explanation? “Patients are too heterogeneous.” That’s partly true — but there’s a deeper problem. Part 2 of a 3-thread series on why ICU trials fail and why
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