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Trying to keep up with Climate Change facts,  but really, you want to know what you can do as a healthcare professional more than suggesting your patients should watch Cowspiracy on Netflix?

This is an interview with Climate legend Robin Stott. We cover:

• Amazing climate activist stories including his arrest with extinction rebellion - documented in this Lancet article: Doctors and civil disobedience.
• The successes and failures of COP26
• Climate Justice - what it is and how to solve it
• What you can do as a healthcare professional

Links:
The UK Health Alliance's Editorial, published simultaneously in > 200 journals including the Lancet

More on Contractions and Convergence for CO2 emissions

Wealth of resources on UK Health Alliance website including education, advice, how to talk to patients about climate etc

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Trying to keep up with the medical literature, but it's another COVID Christmas and you can’t wait to unwrap your stocking filled with lateral flows, rota gaps, and cancelled leave…you're ears are in the right place.

Barney & Jon are back to cover the latest medical literature.

We cover:
How long is too long for a liver transplant?
The harms of tramadol?
HFPeF gets a breakthrough.
ARB vs ACEi: a battle you didn't know you cared about.
Personalised your steroids in COPD.
Why Iron & infections don't mix?
Studied so much they should call it COVIDamin D
Obesity trends that break the scales.

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Trying to get to medical conferences but no one knows the study leave code, no one will cover your shift, you don’t like online learning, and anyway, you actually thought BTS was an Asian boyband?

Your ears are in the right place.

With fantastic Professors, Consultants and Trainees, we unofficially cover the best bits from BTS Winter Meeting 2021.

In Part 1, hosted by Dr Barnaby Hirons  and Dr Katia Florman, we cover:

Social determinants of health by Dr Smith
Pollution and nutrition: destroying lungs by Dr Hirons
Infection highlights by Dr Florman
Pleural essentials with Dr Murray
TB and NTM - the latest with Dr Burman
Stopping ageing with Dr Hirons


BTS programme & abstracts link here

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Trying to get to medical conferences but no one knows the study leave code, no one will cover your shift, you don’t like online learning, and anyway, you actually thought BTS was an Asian boyband?

Your ears are in the right place.

With fantastic Professors, Consultants and Trainees, we unofficially cover the best bits from BTS Winter Meeting 2021.

In Part 1, hosted by Dr Barnaby Hirons  and Dr Katia Florman, we cover:

Crucial Cough updates with Prof McGarvey
Zero Tolerance for COPD exacerbations with Prof Hurst
High Flow Tx in COPD with Dr D'Cruz
Scaling heights in COPD with Dr Taylor
Eos and Feno severity in asthma with Prof Couillard
Inhaler recycling with Dr Robinson

BTS programme & abstracts link here

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Wondering how a plant-based diet might benefit your patients and the climate? We sit down with plant-based diet expert Dr Shireen Kassam to discuss the climate impact of diet, the evidence for a plant-based diet in reversing chronic diseases, and how we can discuss it with our patients.

Links mentioned:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/
https://www.pcrm.org/
https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local?country=
https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/

 Important citations:

Bodai, B.I. et al. (2017) ‘Lifestyle Medicine: A Brief Review of Its Dramatic Impact on Health and Survival’, The Permanente Journal. doi: 10.7812/TPP/17-025. 

Budhathoki S, Sawada N, Iwasaki M, et al. (2019) 'Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality', JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2806

Coronary artery disease: The role of plant-based diets in coronary artery disease
Diabetes:  Satija, A. et al. (2016) ‘Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in US Men and Women: Results from Three Prospective Cohort Studies’, PLoS Medicine. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002039

Climate impacts:
Scheelbeek P, Green R, Papier K, et al. (2020) 'Health impacts and environmental footprints of diets that meet the Eatwell Guide recommendations: analyses of multiple UK studies'. BMJ Open;10:e037554. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-037554

 Willett, W. et al. (2019) ‘Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems’, Lancet, 6736, pp. 3–49. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31788-4.

Changing food systems

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Trying to keep up with the medical literature but...

You’ve just watched Squid Games, you’re feeling a bit stressed, and you thought some light-hearted medical education was just the ticket?

Your ears are in the right place.

Tonight your ears are joined by Barney, Cami and Alvin as we wade through an amazing collection of medical literature to bring you the best, most interesting and practice-changing information out there...

In order:
Respiratory RS - what O2 to use in COVID?

AF - to screen or not?

Metabolism over life - is this why we get fat later in life?

Statins in elderly - to stop or not?

Exercise in polluted areas - do the risks outweigh benefits?

Cycling for diabetes - GET ON YOUR BIKES!

Alcohol preventing diabetes - no, really?

Sleep duration and delirium risk

Can watching TV cause DVTs?

Physician attire - what not to wear

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Trying to keep up with the medical literature but...

 As it’s change-over time, you are far more preoccupied with finding where the staff toilet is, the code for this, and where on earth you can buy coffee?

Your ears are in the right place

In Ep40 we get our favourite Haematology Professor, Beverley Hunt OBE, to discuss our last Round Up's key articles. Including:

Do we REALLY believe the idea that we should give treatment dose anticoagulant to moderate Covid but a  prophylactic dose to patients in ICU?
Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19 | NEJM

Should we be using D-dimers in pregnancy?
D-dimer to rule out venous thromboembolism during pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
The DiPEP study

And are age-adjusted D-dimers the way to go?
Multi-center implementation of automated age-adjusted D-dimer results reduces unnecessary PE imaging

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Trying to keep up with the medical literature but you are too busy considering whether not driving to work for the environment might mean you could ward round from home today?
Your ears are in the right place.

Today's interview is with the awesome Professor Richard Smith, author of Lancet article:

We cover:
Love Island bodies
Richard's career
UK health Alliance and their work
 - their global editorial, A Call For Emergency Action, is now released
What is the issue with Clinical Trials?
What do we need to aim for in healthcare?
Where we are at
What we need to do - as an organisation and as individuals

Also check out his  brilliant blogs:
BMJ blog
Non-medical blog

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JournalSpotting is back from its summer break.

Jon & Barney are joined by Dr. Dave McCreary all the way from Australia. Dave runs the RCEM podcast and joins JournalSpotting to bridge the chasm between A&E and medics and share some evidence-based pearls.

We cover:

• Why COVID is still *****
• How does the delta variant present and does my microchip work?
• Have we figured out how to anticoagulate in COVID-19?
• More evidence for age-adjusted D-dimers?
• Do you use D-Dimers in Pregnancy?
• Do we still need to create arbitrary bridging protocols for surgery?
• Is that double shot espresso really causing your patients AF?
• How effective is smoking cessation at improving lung cancer survival?
• Does smoking cessation improve mental health symptoms?
• Can an app save my back pain?
• Which central line is safest for chemo?
• Kiwis for constipation?
• Is this podcast making me any smarter?

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Welcome to after the summer break!

LJ, Katia, Barney, and Jon kick off a new series and get their teeth stuck into the link between climate change and health.

In this introduction episode we bring you up to speed with what climate change what climate change actually is and why its a health problem.

Topics discussed:

• What is climate change
• Why is climate change a health crisis?
• What is the role of healthcare professionals?
• What is the role of the health service (in particular the NHS)?

Listen up for our climate challenge and try and join us on a plastic-free month. Share your experience with us @Journalspotting and [email protected].

Key links:
Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Costello & Montgomery paper on the role of healthcare professionals
The sustainable physician & Sustainability in quality improvement by Frances Mortimer
Greener NHS: Delivering a Net Zero Health Service
Views of health care professionals on climate change and health: a multinational survey study

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