Don't Forget the Bubbles

Neil Spenceley is a paediatric intensivist and is the National Lead for Paediatric Patient Safety. This talk is packed with nuggets that will change the way you view the world in which you practice. Neil explains Safety 1 and Safety 2 thinking. The talk is wide-ranging and covers poor behaviours in healthcare both at a...

In this week’s podcast we are delighted to welcome back the team from Dragon Bytes. Host Dr Assim Javaid introduces an interview between Dr Stacey Harris and Dr Raj Krishnan from the University Hospital of Wales on the subject of nephrotic syndrome.

The neonatal world is different from the remainder of paediatrics; it is one of the most confronting places a paediatric trainee will work. From your first day you may be asked to intubate the smallest patient you have ever seen. The next may involve the unsuccessful resuscitation of a term infant. Many of us will...

In this week’s DFTB podcast we talk to Dr Amy Plint, Faculty Medicine Research Chair in PEM at the University of Ottawa about adverse events following attendance in the paediatric emergency department. Dr Plint, who is a former chair of PERC, discusses her paper from BMJ Quality and Safety on the subject and highlights lessons...

Neonatal procedures can be broken down into two broad categories. There are those that are needed to stabilize the child in front of you (such as vascular access or intubation) and there are those with a more diagnostic intent (such as a lumbar puncture or SPA). Newborns are unpredictable so Beth Osmond asks us to...

Hazel Talbot graduated from one of the countries leading medical schools just one year after Andrew Tagg. Whilst he has fled the NHS for warmer climes she has remained in the UK and works as a neonatologist for Embrace, the Yorkshire and Humber Infant and Children’s Transport service, part of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. She is also...

This podcast will change your working life! We speak to Dan Wadsworth, co-founder of the social movement ’15 seconds 30 minutes’, about how small changes can make huge differences and bring joy back to the workplace.

James Tooley is consultant neonatologist in Bristol. We gave him the task of bringing us a little more up-to-date with the neonatal literature.

In this week’s COVID Catch up – a summary of the last couple of months thoughts through the Communication, Organisation, Vital Signs, Interventions and Dilemmas titles with a nod to previous podcasts on communication in full PPE and managing the new ‘inflammatory’ syndrome.

You might not what to think about it, but some of our patients are having sex. And as much as we might hope, it is not always consensual and it is not always safe. In this talk from London Josh talks about the resurgence of gonorrhea and chlamydia as well as the importance of testing...