General BroadCAST
Episodes
TMT - Oesophageal Food Bolus
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In our choking podcast we discussed the differential diagnosis of Oesophageal food bolus. In this breif episode Simon talks us through exactly what th...
Choking
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This month we're taking a look at the management of the most time critical airway emergency... choking. You might think there's not much to ta...
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS) remains one of the most frequently encountered yet potentially life-threatening presentations in acute and pre-hospi...
RCUK ALS Updates 2025
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Late yes! But very much worth the wait.... Not ones to be left out, this month we're jumping on the resuscitation bandwagon and discussing the mos...
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With over 400,000 type 1 diabetics living with the disease in the UK, the likelyhood paramedics and emergency responders will encounter a patient in...
Beta Blocker Overdose
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode we reflect on a case of Beta Blocker overdose, we examine the pharmacology with toxicity, look at specific drugs like propanolol and h...
TMT - Ventilating Tracheostomies
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This throwback TMT is a segment from our podcast interviewing the head of the national tracheostomy safety project Dr Brendan Mcgrath. In this segment...
Newborn Life Support - Part 2
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second in our 2 part podcast looking at Newborn Life support. In the second episode we look at a real time run through of the NLS algorith...
Newborn Life Support Pt 1
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of our 2 part podcast looking at Newborn Life support. We talk about the differences in anatomy and physiology of the newborn baby a...
Trailer Episode 1
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Professor Douglas Chamberlain
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Anthony Chamberlain, CBE, OStJ, KSG was a British cardiologist who founded the first paramedics in the United Kingdom which at the time ...
TMT - Lower back pain (Throwback)
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a throwback episode looking at a key learning point from Episode 10 - Lower back pain. Check out the full episode here: https://open.spotify.c...
Shall we stop?
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this months episode, we explore one of the most challenging aspects of paramedic practice — discontinuing resuscitation and how to deliver that ...
Documentation
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the back of our last episode looking at fitness to practice and keeping ourselves safe, we thought it would be a good opportunity to reflect on the...
Demystifying HCPC Hearings - With Andrea James
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we were lucky enough to sit down with Andrea James, a lawyer who specialises in defending paramedics in HCPC fitness to practice hearings. ...
TMT - Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cauda Equina is one of the most litigious areas in emergency medical practice, as if it's missed, it can have devastating effects for patients. Cauda...
Burns
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Burns represent a special form of severe trauma which can negatively affect nearly every organ system. Despite huge advances in the care of these pati...
TMT - Autonomic Dysreflexia
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Autonomic dysreflexia is listed in JRCALC as a condition with specific prehospital treatments, meaning it is something that emergency clinicians and a...
Renal Colic
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Renal colic is one of those conditions, that if you've had it you'll never forget it, and if you've seen it, you'll probably be able to recognise it t...
TMT - Paracetamol Overdose
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Along with our regular content, we will be releasing a short, less than 10 minute episode on a variety of topics. Perfect for a short commute to work,...
Hypoglycaemia
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we look at managing hypoglycaemia, the perfect episode to listen to if you're just starting your educational journey as a student paramedic...
TMT: Arterial Torniquets
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Along with our regular content, we will be releasing a short, less than 10 minute episode on a variety of topics. Perfect for a short commute to work,...
Nitrate Poisoning
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we take a look at nitrate poisoning. It may not be the most common emergency case to present to prehospital clinicians, but cases of it do ...
ROSC - Part 2
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this second part looking at care of patients who have gained a return of Spontaneous Circulation, we discuss; reassessment and changing airway need...
ROSC - Part 1
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiac arrest is a situation that as paramedics and ambulance staff we are well prepared for. However, training can sometimes be limited around retur...
Impact Brain Apnoea
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Impact brain apnoea is the cessation or disruption of the inate breathing mechanism following a blow to the head. Its possible for this to result in t...
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest (TCA) is a rare and particularly stressful presentation to paramedics and emergency clinicians. We should be com...
Pulmonary Embolism
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pulmonary Embolism is a common emergency presentation to paramedics and emergency medicine clinicians. We discuss why PEs cause right ventricular stra...
Diving Emergencies
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All diving represents a hazard, as humans we're not designed to live under water. The deeper divers go and the longer they dive for, the greater the p...
Error And Blame Culture with Andy Collen
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all make mistakes, its a natural part of the course of being human. What matters is that we're honest about these, learn from them and feel safe in...
Human Factors
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patient safety should be the key aim at the heart of any healthcare system, including the NHS. Yet we know that every single day, patients come to avo...
Heroin Overdose
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Heroin overdose or other opiate poisoning is an emergency that most paramedics and ambulance staff will be familiar with. However, there are some elem...
Hanging
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Content Warning This podcast features discussion of suicide and hanging. Hanging is one of the most common methods of suicide in the western world. ...
Ankle Injury
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ankle injuries present to ambulance staff across a wide spectrum, from the minor soft tissue injury that can be discharged on scene, to the fracture d...
Asthma
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Asthma is the most common lung pathology in the UK. Managing exacerbations of the disease is something paramedics and emergency teams should be well v...
Strep-A & Scarlet Fever
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Its a topic that's been in the news a lot recently. This year is seeing a particularly high number of Strep A infections in the UK, this naturally tra...
Remote Clinical Support and Top Cover
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we discuss how to get the best out of remote clinical support or "top cover" calls. There are a number of human factors issues that can be ...
Headache
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we're looking at headaches, this is a condition with a wide range of causes, from the seemingly benign migraines and tension headache to mo...
Epistaxis
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we're taking a look at Epistaxis. It's a common presentation with a varied degree of severity. You might not think there's much to learn a...
Tracheostomy Emergencies
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we're back from our break and we're tackling a topic that is known to make even the most experienced practitioners a bit flustered...Trache...
PHEA
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pre-Hospital Emergency Anaesthesia, or PHEA for short, is the term used to describe a rapid sequence induction, or anaesthetic, in the pre-hospital em...
Frailty
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frailty is a term we commonly encounter in urgent and emergency care, but can you actually define it? Have you been taught to use frailty scores, and ...
Silver Trauma
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Silver trauma is the term that is most commonly used to describe trauma in older patients. It is often used to refer to major trauma in this patient g...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Pt 2
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode in a two-part series on COPD. In this episode, we look at the differential diagnosis to consider to a simple exacerbation,...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Part 1
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COPD is a terminal condition believed to affect as much as 4% of the UK populace. These patients often present to ambulance crews with an exacerbation...
Paediatric Fever
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of Paediatrics medicine, the presentation of fever is probably not far behind. This is a common finding by paramedics and ambulance sta...
Aortic Pathologies
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whilst Aortic Pathologies may not be the most common emergency condition paramedics are presented with, they are most definitely among the most devast...
Safe Discharge
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Discharging a patient is one of the riskier areas of practice for paramedics and ambulance clinicians, so it is essential that we appropriately safety...
Bronchiolitis
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month we take a look at a paediatric condition...Bronchiolitis. We discuss the pathophysiology of the disease, how paramedics and ambulance staff...
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are an extremely common presentation to both primary and secondary care services. The term UTI encompasses a wide rang...
Mentorship: The Failing Student
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month we're tackling Failure: the difficult decisions, the awkward conversations but also the improvement and learning that can come out of it.
Mentorship
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Becoming a mentor can be a bit of a mixed bag. Some trusts may insist their mentors sit a module on the topic at level 6 or higher, where as others ma...
Acute Cocaine Toxicity
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cocaine might be a drug you associate with the 1980s, however, a 2018 audit found that it was still the 2nd most used recreational drug within the UK....
Lower Back Pain
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Affecting an estimated 80% of the population at some time in their lives, Lower back pain is a common presentation to ambulance crews. Often this will...
RTC Pt 2: Listeners Questions
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Second part of our 2 part mini series looking at Road Traffic Collision. In this episode we put your questions to Adam Barrow, head of co...
RTC Pt 1: The Injury Experience
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode we speak to Adam Barrow the head of collision research for TRL. Adam talks to us about how he and his team assess the scenes of Road T...
Adult Head Injury
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every year in England and wales 1.4 million people attend A+E with a head injury, this makes up just over 6.5% of the presentations that Emergency dep...
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Bias
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Logical Fallacies have been documented as far back as ancient greece. For over 2000 years we have been making logical errors, and in modern day parame...
Preparing for Practice
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This year, students are registering in unprecedentedly difficult times which is bound to lead to some anxieties. In this episode we discuss 10 bits o...
Transient Loss of Conciousness
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss Transient loss of Conciousness. The presentations, assessments involved and potential causes, as well as some case studies ...
Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest Pt 2
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of our 2 part podcast on hypothermia. In this podcast we look at managment of the critically unwell hypothermic patient and mo...
Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest Pt 1
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at the pathophysiology behind hypothermia. We go through the stages of hypothermia from mild homeostatic changes to peri-arres...
Fall Non-injury
04 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
General Broadcast is a free online learning resource aimed at UK based student paramedics. The podcasts are short summaries of topics designed to refr...