Clinical skills

A segment on acronyms, and particularly the dangers of them in Emergency Medicine practice and examinations has been added to the Educational techniques page.

A segment on Mnemonics has been added to the Educational techniques page.

A segment on the effects of IV contrast on laboratory analysis has been added to the Intravenous contrast page.

The segment on Elder abuse on the Ageing page has been updated.

The Electrocardiography page has been updated with a new segment on machine interpretation of ECGs.

The Hyponatraemia page has been updated, including additional information about how protein concentrations can alter measured Na+ when indirect sensitive electrodes (high volume lab analysers) are used.

A small number of updates and wording improvements have been made to the Obesity page.

The Hyponatraemia page has been updated with some additional information about the relative frequency of the causes of SIAD.

Some other minor updates and wording modifications have been made to the Hyponatraemia page.

The Ultrasonography page has been updated with additional information about the appearance of tissue of nerves.

The Ultrasonography page has been updated with additional information about beam width effects.

The Hypernatraemia page has been updated with a revised section on treatment.

The Violence page has had a number of other minor updates.

The Violence page has been updated with revised guidelines for sedative agents in violence.

The LFTs page has been updated with additional information about serum ammonia.

The Bereavement page has had a couple of minor updates, including the recommendation not to routinely send follow up messages to families of bereaved patients, due o the associated increased risk of depression and PTSD.

The Medical records page has had a number of other minor updates and wording changes.

The Medical records page has been updated with an additional segment on abbreviations (and why they can be bad!).

The Medical records page has been updated with a major revision of the segment on electronic medical records.