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By Simon Laing, Rob Fenwick & James Yates

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June 2020; papers of the month

06.01.2020

Welcome back to June’s Papers Podcast! Traditionally when you’re taught about working a patient up for a potential diagnosis you’ll find a list of signs, symptoms and tests that you need to perform in order to obtain your diagnosis. What ...

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06.01.2020 June 2020; papers of the month Welcome back to June’s Papers Podcast! Traditionally when you’re taught about working a patient up for a potential diagnosis you’ll find a list of signs, symptoms and tests that you need to perform in order to obtain your diagnosis. What ...
05.25.2020 Transfer; Roadside to Resus Transfers of patients happen all the time. It's easy to think about transfers as only those that involve an ambulance and moving patients from one hospital to the next, but in reality it's far more extensive than that. We all ...
05.01.2020 May 2020; papers of the month Welcome to May's papers of the month podcast. Hope you are all well and keeping safe. This month James joins Simon to discuss some of the great work published following the London Trauma Conference, all available in the hyperlinks on ...
04.20.2020 Pelvic Injury; Roadside to Resus Fractures of the pelvis are found reasonably often in major trauma, but they’re a really challenging presentation. They are difficult to assess and accurately diagnose in the prehospital setting, mortality rates are high, particularly in patients with haemodynamic instability and ...
04.10.2020 Respiratory Strategies in COVID-19 So COVID-19 has produced a multitude of challenges to healthcare providers, the response to these challenges has been phenomenal. One uncertainty is the strategy we should employ for hypoxic respiratory failure and several high quality guidelines have presented conflicting advice ...
04.01.2020 April 2020; papers of the month First we hope you're all well. The world has changed dramatically over the the last few weeks and you are all doing a phenomenal job of providing healthcare under extremely challenging circumstances. We are determined to add a bit of ...
03.17.2020 Cutting Edge PHEM; Roadside to Resus Excellent practice is led by following the high quality evidence based medicine, and there have been a lot of great papers published in the last 12 months! We were kindly invited to the Faculty of Pre Hospital Care Annual Scientific ...
03.01.2020 March 2020; papers of the month We've got a great spread of topics for you this month, stretching all the way from Prehospital Critical Care, to core Emergency Medicine topics. Those of us seeing 'non-specific' complaints will appreciate how difficult they can be to diagnose and ...
02.14.2020 Stabbing; Roadside to Resus Figures for the year ending September 2019 showed a 7% rise in offences involving knives or sharp instruments recorded by the police (to 44,771 offences). This is 46% higher than when comparable recording began (year ending March 2011) and the ...
02.01.2020 February 2020; papers of the month Welcome back! Three very different topics and papers for you this month. First up we have a look at the risk/benefit of sending troponins on patients aged 65 years an older when presenting with non-specific complaints; does this help their ...
01.15.2020 Seizures; Roadside to Resus Seizures are defined as a “paroxysmal electrical discharge of the neurones in the brain resulting in a change of function or behaviour”. All of us involved in Emergency Care will encounter patients with seizures which can occur for a number ...
01.01.2020 January 2020; papers of the month Happy New Year!! We hope you've all had a great Christmas and New Year and that you managed to get some well earned time off over the festive period. 2019 saw us publish more insights from lead authors of the ...
12.12.2019 Pre-Hospital Critical Care; London Trauma Conference 2019 REBOA, ECMO, Thoracotomy? Where should we be focussing our attention in the world of Pre-hospital care? We were lucky enough to be invited to the London Trauma Conference on the Prehospital Day supported by the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. The ...
12.01.2019 December 2019; papers of the month Well the year has flown by and it's already time for December's Papers of the Month Podcast! Head injuries are a huge work load for those of us involved in Emergency Care. Identifying those at risk of deterioration from a ...
11.18.2019 Angioedema Angioedema is something we'll all encounter in the acute setting, whether we recognise it or not... Understanding the different causes and mechanisms is imperative to ensuring the patients get treatment that is not only effective, but in extremis potentially lifesaving. ...
11.11.2019 Community Emergency Medicine As care on our emergency and urgent care demand is on an ever upwards course, whilst alongside this the scope of what we can potentially deliver to patients is also increasing. In order to meet this demand and to deliver ...
11.01.2019 November 2019; papers of the month We've got some papers this month that focus on our sickest patients! If you had a patient that you found in cardiac arrest and you believed they had a PE, would you thrombolyse them during the arrest, and how much ...
10.15.2019 Can TXA save lives in head injuries, CRASH-3; Roadside to Resus So an incredibly important paper, CRASH-3 has just been published in the Lancet, which looks at the treatment of head injuries with Tranexamic Acid (TXA). TXA has been shown to save lives in trauma patients at the risk of major ...
10.01.2019 October 2019; papers of the month Welcome to October '19 papers podcast. You can't go far without the topic of TXA as a treatment for anything that bleeds being mentioned! With the publication of CRASH-2 and the WOMAN trial practice has crept such that administration in ...
09.16.2019 Shock in Trauma; Roadside to Resus So as promised, and following on from our previous shock episode, this time we've covered the topic of shock in Trauma. It's a massive topic and one that we all, yet again, can make a huge difference for our patients' ...
09.01.2019 September 2019; papers of the month We start off this month with a much talked about paper in the pre-hospital services, what benefit does Pre Hospital Critical Care bring to cardiac arrest victims? We are lucky enough to have the inside thoughts of the lead author, ...
08.15.2019 Stroke Management; Roadside to Resus Following on from our previous Roadside to Resus episode on Stroke, in this episode we look at the rapidly evolving area of stroke management. In the last 2 decades stroke management has progressed beyond recognition and keeping up with the ...
08.01.2019 August 2019; papers of the month Well the summer has definitely hit and we hope you get a chance for a break... making sure you spend spend some time listening to our Heat Illness episode on a beach somewhere! It's a wide variety of papers for ...
07.15.2019 Stroke; Roadside to Resus Stroke is a common presentation to all Emergency Health care providers, with around 150,000 strokes occurring in the UK each year! Our impact and treatment can be hugely significant and in this podcast we’re going to conver the topic in ...
07.01.2019 July 2019; papers of the month Welcome back! This month we're finishing off our theme of syncope with a paper that looks to answer the big question; in those with undifferentiated syncope, does hospitalisation result in better outcomes when compared to discharge? We have a look ...
06.17.2019 Heat Illness; Roadside to Resus If you live in the UK you may be fooled in to thinking that Heat Illness isn't really something we need to worry about...but you'd be wrong! Each year there are 800 deaths due to Heat Illness and figures in ...
06.01.2019 June 2019; papers of the month Status Epilepticus in children, lying and standing blood pressures in syncope or presyncope and decompressing paediatric tension pneumothoraces. You'll no doubt have seen and heard about the two papers published this month in the Lancet, both Consept and Eclipse look ...
05.15.2019 Drowning; Roadside to Resus Drowning is a huge worldwide problem, and here in the UK there are around 350 accidental deaths from drowning each year. From the patient who is potentially well enough for discharge on scene, all the way through to the resuscitation ...
05.01.2019 May 2019; papers of the month So first up a huge welcome to SJTREM, the free open access journal who we've teamed up with in the delivery of the podcast, every paper they publish is available online to read for free. Each month we'll be covering ...
04.15.2019 GCS 8, intubate? 'Patients with GCS scores of 8 or less require prompt intubation', that's what ATLS tells us. The mantra of GCS 8, intubate has pervaded teaching for those involved in the management of patients with a reduced GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale). ...
04.01.2019 April 2019; papers of the month So we've got a massively important paper that we're going to kick off April's Papers of the Month podcast with, which is the RCT we've been waiting for; whether patients who have a ROSC should go to the cath lab, ...
03.18.2019 Advanced Airway Management Updates We were lucky enough to be back at the fantastic TraumaCare Conference last week. There were a whole host of fantastic talks on offer and the Emergency Medicine stream, arranged by our very own Rob Fenwick, included a pro/con debate ...
03.01.2019 March 2019; papers of the month We've got a broad array of topics and papers for you this month! First up we look at a paper from the NEJM assessing the potential benefits in providing ventilations to patients undergoing an RSI. Next we look at patients ...
02.14.2019 Hypothermia; Roadside to Resus Hypothermia is a common problem for both pre and in-hospital clinicians. Understanding the underpinning physiology helps us deliver first class care to our patients, decreasing associated morbidity and mortality. There is some extremely difficult decision making to be done in ...
02.01.2019 February 2019; papers of the month Ketamine and trauma are the topics for this months papers. The three papers we cover are really important for all of us involved in the care of critically unwell patients. Hypotensive resuscitation in the context of trauma has been an ...
01.14.2019 Shock; Roadside to Resus If you're involved in the care of critically unwell patients then you will frequently encounter patients who are shocked. The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine defines shock as; 'Life-threatening, generalized form of acute circulatory failure associated with inadequate oxygen ...
01.01.2019 January 2019; papers of the month Happy New Year!! Hopefully you got a bit of downtime over the festive period and are feeling suitably refreshed and ready to attack 2019! We've got 3 great papers to kick off the year. First up we look at the ...
12.20.2018 Christmas Special '18 Festive greetings to all! We hope you've had a fantastic 2018 and have some time off over Xmas and New Year to celebrate with friends and family. We thought we'd bring you some of the most influential papers that we've ...
12.17.2018 Cardiac Arrest Masterclass; London Trauma Conference 2018 Cardiac arrest management is core business of a resuscitationist and practice is constantly evolving in the pursuit of improving patient outcomes. We were lucky enough to be invited to the London Trauma Conference's Cardiac Arrest Masterclass stream, where Matt Thomas ...
12.01.2018 December 2018; papers of the month Well the year maybe coming to a close but the high quality papers keep on coming out! We've got 3 great articles to cover in this episode which have some key points to reflect on in our practice. First up ...
11.23.2018 Chemical Burns, Maternal arrest, Amputation and Mental Toughness; BASICSFPHC18 Day 2 We were delighted to be back to cover the joint Faculty of Prehospital Care and BASICS conference, day 2, held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Again we were absolutely spoilt for choice when it came to content ...
11.20.2018 Sick Paeds, Extrication and Drowning; BASICSFPHC18 Day 1 We were delighted to be invited to cover the joint Faculty of Prehospital Care and BASICS conference held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. This two-day prehospital extravaganza covered a broad range of topics and the content was ...
11.08.2018 Cricoid Pressure; Roadside to Resus We've heard a lot about advanced airway management recently, with some really significant publications over the last few months and in the last few weeks in JAMA we've had another! Cricoid pressure during emergency anaesthesia and for those at high ...
11.01.2018 November 2018; papers of the month Welcome back to November's Papers Podcast! We've got 3 great papers for you again this month. First up we take a look at a paper that looks to quantify the amount of experience needed to be a proficient intubator, in ...
10.15.2018 Burns; Roadside to Resus With bonfire night approaching we thought it would be a good time to have a think about burns. However burns are a significant issue at all times of year with around 130,000 presentations to UK EDs annually, 10,000 cases are ...
10.01.2018 October 2018; papers of the month Welcome back to October's Papers Podcast, this month we move airway from advanced airway management and bring you a broad array of papers. First up we have a look at the relative success of a variety of pharmacological strategies for ...
09.14.2018 September 2018; papers of the month So we're back with September's papers of the month a little later than usual but we wanted to give you a little time to digest AIRWAYS-2... before we give you some more prehospital research on advanced airway management in cardiac ...
08.28.2018 Intubation or supraglottic airway in cardiac arrest; AIRWAYS-2 So we're back from our summer hiatus with a real treat. The long awaited AIRWAYS-2 paper has just been released and we've been lucky enough to speak with the lead author, Professor Jonathan Benger, about the paper and discuss what ...
08.01.2018 August 2018; papers of the month Welcome to August's papers of the month. So this is our last offering for the summer until whilst we take a short break until September, so we had to finish off we 3 great papers! First up we look at ...
07.25.2018 Adrenaline in Cardiac Arrest; PARAMEDIC2 Drugs in cardiac arrest are controversial. Prehospital research is notoriously difficult to perform. PARAMEDIC2 has just published in the New England Journal of Medicine and is a multi centre randomised placebo controlled trial looking at adrenaline (or epinephrine depending on ...

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June 2020; papers of the month

Transfer; Roadside to Resus

May 2020; papers of the month

Pelvic Injury; Roadside to Resus

Respiratory Strategies in COVID-19

April 2020; papers of the month

Cutting Edge PHEM; Roadside to Resus

March 2020; papers of the month

Stabbing; Roadside to Resus

February 2020; papers of the month

Seizures; Roadside to Resus

January 2020; papers of the month

Pre-Hospital Critical Care; London Trauma Conference 2019

December 2019; papers of the month

Angioedema

Community Emergency Medicine

November 2019; papers of the month

Can TXA save lives in head injuries, CRASH-3; Roadside to Resus

October 2019; papers of the month

Shock in Trauma; Roadside to Resus

September 2019; papers of the month

Stroke Management; Roadside to Resus

August 2019; papers of the month

Stroke; Roadside to Resus

July 2019; papers of the month

Heat Illness; Roadside to Resus

June 2019; papers of the month

Drowning; Roadside to Resus

May 2019; papers of the month

GCS 8, intubate?

April 2019; papers of the month

Advanced Airway Management Updates

March 2019; papers of the month

Hypothermia; Roadside to Resus

February 2019; papers of the month

Shock; Roadside to Resus

January 2019; papers of the month

Christmas Special '18

Cardiac Arrest Masterclass; London Trauma Conference 2018

December 2018; papers of the month

Chemical Burns, Maternal arrest, Amputation and Mental Toughness; BASICSFPHC18 Day 2

Sick Paeds, Extrication and Drowning; BASICSFPHC18 Day 1

Cricoid Pressure; Roadside to Resus

November 2018; papers of the month

Burns; Roadside to Resus

October 2018; papers of the month

September 2018; papers of the month

Intubation or supraglottic airway in cardiac arrest; AIRWAYS-2

August 2018; papers of the month

Adrenaline in Cardiac Arrest; PARAMEDIC2

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