RCEM Learning

Use of CT in Trauma

16 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The podcasts covers topics from his talk on CT in Trauma and gives some of the benefits and drawbacks of CT and its place in the Trauma Patient Journe...

RCEM Leeds Day 3

10 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the RCEM CPD event in Leeds. We're here to give you updates and some pearls that we've gleaned from the conference.

RCEM Leeds Day 2

09 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the RCEM CPD event in Leeds. We're here to give you updates and some pearls that we've gleaned from the conference.

RCEM Leeds Day 1

08 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the RCEM CPD event in Leeds. We're here to give you updates and some pearls that we've gleaned from the conference.

March 2016 New in EM

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first in a new series of monthly podcasts at the RCFN looking at recent literature.

The Safety Toolkit

17 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A summary of RCEM's Safety Toolkit. it was produced by RCEM to help deliver safe, high quality care to patients.

IV Fluid in Children

03 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

NICE guideline on IV fluid Therapy in Children and young People in Hospital.

Management for the FRCEM

19 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The FRCEM in its current form contains a management viva. This will be changing over the next few years and ultimately will be replaced.

Ready Steady Blow

13 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A basic overview of the management of a common tachycardia in the ED – SV

Creating flow in your ED; hospital targets

16 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So no doubt now we're approaching winter your ED will be under pressure and both your team and the hospital will be looking for strategies to reduce c...

HYPOXIC DRIVE: FACT OR FICTION?

09 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So you're in the Emergency Department when a medical alert arrives. He's tachypnoeic, tachycardic and visibly cyanotic with saturations of 75% on room...

Patient Handover

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you who weren't able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we'll be bringing you...

Making good judgements

27 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This talk hopes to explore how we make decisions in the ED, why it's often difficult in a time poor, information light setting and gives some strategi...

Cut to cure

25 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you who weren't able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we'll be bringing you...

Minor head injury…..probably

23 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you who weren't able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we'll be bringing you...

Paediatric Trauma

20 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you who weren't able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we'll be bringing you...

What nobody told you about troponins

18 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you who weren't able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we'll be bringing you...

Making a Difference in Trauma Critical Bleeding

13 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

In addition to being a Consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon, Dr Brohi is also a Professor in Trauma Sciences and the founder of Trauma.org. He spoke...

Cutting Edge Advances in Major Trauma Care 2015

11 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

September 2015 brought us the superb RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Manchester. Rick Body and the Organising Committee did a superb job of provi...

What it takes to be at the cutting edge

06 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you who weren't able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we'll be bringing you...

The future of UK EM

04 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you who weren't able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we'll be bringing you...

Pee Values

27 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

What does the presence of dipstick haematuria mean to you in the context of blunt abdominal trauma? This podcast investigates a recent paper on the to...

NICE Bronchiolitis

21 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

When you assess your patient you need to take a good focussed history, make a thorough examination focussing on evidence of respiratory failure/distre...

ophthalmology clinical

14 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Andy's 4th podcast on the eye

FEEL Part 1

07 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

It is most useful in the non-shockable side of the algorithm and can be an aid when considering the 4 Hs and the 4 Ts of the ALS Algorithm

RCEM Manchester Day 3 Summary

30 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Here's what went on at the fantastic RCEM '15 Annual Conference in Manchester on the final day

RCEM Manchester Day 2 Summary

29 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Here's what went on at the fantastic RCEM '15 Annual Conference in Manchester on Day 2

RCEM Manchester Day 1 Summary

28 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Here's what went on at the fantastic RCEM '15 Annual Conference in Manchester on Day 1

Are you taking the pee? Urine testing in the ED

23 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Urine testing potentially isn't the most glamorous of topics but it's an area which there's a HUGE scope for us improving on.

Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose - Is Fat Where It's At?

16 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

TCA overdose an uncommon presentation to the Emergency Department. TCA overdoses can however be fatal.

Feverish Illness in Children

02 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

We all feel the pressure when managing the feverish child. Differentiating simple viral illness from Serious Bacterial Infection can be challenging in...

Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

19 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Traumatic Cardiac arrest is a stressful and time critical presentation to the ED. You need to have a solid structure in your mind for how to deal with...

The Returning Traveller

12 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Returning Traveller is designed to give junior ED clinicians the tools needed to safely manage these patients who attend more often – and more u...

RSI - Basics of Neuromuscular Blocking agents

29 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

As Emergency Medicine continues to grow as a specialty, newer fields are coming in to our practice on a more regular basis.

Recognition of Child Abuse in the ED

23 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The ED plays a crucial role in raising the alarm for non-accidental injuries. Frequently, we may be the first port-of call for a child who has gone th...

EBM Part 1

20 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first in a new series of podcasts from the RCEM Research & Publications Committee.

NICE Pneumonia Guidelines

08 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So here is a guide to the new NICE pneumonia guidelines that were published in December 2014, I hope you find it useful.

Sepsis in the ED

03 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

There's no doubt that a case of sepsis will pass through your ED in the next hour or so.

Blood Loss in Trauma

01 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Squadron Leader Rob James spoke at the Telford Trauma Care Conference about blood loss in Trauma, it's management and some novel devices that could be...

smaccUS highlights

26 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

SMACC-US was phenomenal! An amazing event, superb education, great networking, and fantastic hospitality. Here's a brief overview of some highlights.

RCEM Guideline; Information sharing and Community Violence

18 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Best Practice Guidelines are produced by the Royal College for important problems where there is anticipated to be little or no relevant high quality ...

Eye Anatomy Part 3

10 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The 3rd in the series on Eye Anatomy. This vodcast looks at the bits that move the eye. Make sure you check out the other 2 vodcasts, bits of the eye ...

Soft tissue infection

03 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Soft tissue infections are bread and butter cases for the EM clinician. Adrian Boyle gives an overview of the main take home points from his talk on j...

IR in trauma

27 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

James Harding, Consultant at UHCW in Interventional Radiology, gives an overview of his talk from the Trauma Care Conference in Telford on Interventio...

LTC Podcast 8 - Role of the Resus Officer

19 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Resus Officers – They know how to run an arrest, it's what they do and they are all very experienced at it.

Athletic ECGs

13 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Athletes in the ED, my ED, we hardly ever see them……..or so you might think. Actually the definition of an athlete means you come across them far ...

ECGs not to miss in the ED

06 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How many ECG's do you see in your average shift in ED. Ensuring that your skills of interpretation are of high quality is imperative.

Top 10 Trauma Papers 2014-15

27 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This is a blog and podcast produced on collaboration with St. Emlyns and the RCFN based on Professor Simon Carleys talk from the Trauma Care UK confer...

Aggressive Extrication, Immobilisation and Logrolls; Trauma Care Conference

23 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Aggressive Extrication, Immobilisation & Logrolls; Trauma Care Conference

Hyperkalaemia

22 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Hyperkalaemia is a common electrolyte disturbance with life threatening complications. The recognition and effective treatment is crucial in the ED. T...

RCEM guideline; Domestic Violence

20 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Best Practice Guidelines are produced by the Royal College for important problems where there is anticipated to be little or no relevant high quality ...

Care in the ED

17 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Improving care in the ED, one department's response to the Francis report. Gavin Lloyd sums up his talk from the #RCEMBelfast conference and discusses...

Eye Anatomy Part Two

15 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of the eye. This vodcast looks at the bony parts of the eye and the orbit. Make sure to check out Part 1 on bits of the eye. Part 3, the bits t...

RCEM Crowding Guidelines

14 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast covers the Best Practice Guideline on Crowding in the Emergency Department. This is a huge problem for all of us that work in Emergency M...

saap intra-aortic adrenaline in cardiac arrest

10 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This year's Douglas Chamberlain lecture at the LCAS was given by Prof. James Manning on his 25 years of research into cardiac arrest and the use of Se...

Emergency Department Thoracotomy

30 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Trauma is a significant cause of mortality worldwide, especially amongst children and young adults, with the majority of deaths occurring shortly afte...

John Hinds on Airway at #RCEMBelfast

27 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

We managed to grab John Hinds after his fantastic talk on airway management in the ED at the RCEM Spring CPD conference to talk through some key areas...

RCEM Belfast Day 3 Summary

26 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Day 3 of the First CPD Conference since the College went Royal

RCEM Belfast Day 2 Summary

25 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Day21 of the First CPD Conference since the College went Royal

RCEM Belfast Day 1 Summary

24 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Day 1 of the First CPD Conference since the College went Royal

Guideline; end of life care in the ED

19 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first of a new series of podcasts that will be published on the Best Practice Guidelines.

Impedance Threshold Device in trauma

18 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Is there a role for the Impedance Threshold Device in hypotensive, spontaneously breathing, trauma patients?

LTC Podcast 6 Prehospital ECMO

12 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Prehospital ECMO for refractory cardiac arrest is a mind-boggling feat when you consider the rapid response, technical ability and logistics required,...

Urine Drug abuse screens in the ED

04 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Does the use of urine drugs-of-abuse screens ever change the management of your patients in the ED? A look at the evidence behind the practice and cur...

LTC Podcast 5 Management of sudden death in hospital

27 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Sudden, unexpected death in hospital is unfortunately inevitable and something that many of us will have to deal with many times throughout our career...

causes of unconsciousness

25 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Reduced conscious level is a common finding in the ED. With a wide variety of causes a required treatments a systematic approach can make ascertaining...

RCEM CPD EVENT; BELFAST MARCH 2015

23 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The RCEM CPD event in Belfast is fast approaching. With a diverse programme, interactive sessions and some fantastic speakers from across the UK. Have...

LTC Podcast 4 – Trauma Nursing and Research

19 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This was the first year that the London Trauma Conference included a breakaway session dedicated to Trauma Nursing.

LTC podcast 3; 25 Years between, through and over the hedges of Ireland

06 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Medicine who gave the keynote speech at the motorsport medicine breakaway session and took the time to speak to me afterwards.

LTC Podcast 2 - Prehospital USS / Transfer of Difficult Patient / Prehospital TXA

30 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Here we have the second official LTC Podcast recorded live at the conference, an interview with Stefan Mazur, Consultant Emergency Physician & Prehosp...

MACS CDR

28 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Authors aimed to derive and validate a Clinical Decision Rule (CDR) for suspected cardiac chest pain to risk stratify patients in the ED

LTC Podcast 1 Chest Trauma

23 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

In the first of my official LTC podcasts recorded live at the conference I interview Mr Doug West, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirm...

Nocebo

13 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Relieve pain with words only…@slemfoam tickles the surface on how.

Acute Confusion in the Emergency Department

31 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Acute Confusion in the Emergency Department

Crowding in the ED

18 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Crowding in the ED; A huge problem for all working in the ED. This podcast from @CEMFOAMedSW addresses how we can function most efficiently as clinici...

Framington Risk Factors in the ED

17 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

How do the presence of absence of Framingham Risk Factors affect your perception of patients in the ED having ACS? This podcast looks at this topic an...

Being a Fat Controller

10 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Medical Coordinators SOP (How to be the fat controller)

Organ Donation

03 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Consider organ donation in all patients who are intubated and a plan has been made to withdraw care.

Eye Anatomy Part 1

19 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Eye anatomy part one'. Learn/refresh your anatomy of the eye in this vodcast from @AndyNeill, starting with 'bits of the eye'.

End-Tidal CO2 in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism

05 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A podcast on a recent paper of the utility of ETCO2 for the diagnosis of PE from @AcmeDr and @ParmyDeol

EWS in the ED

22 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Identification of a deteriorating patient is key to early intervention with the acutely deteriorating patient. This podcast will help to give you a so...

Interact 2

08 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Wondering what aggressive antihypertensive treatment does for acute haemorrhagic stoke? Listen to this podcast to hear about a signficant trial on thi...

Constipation

03 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A topic to muddy the FOAMed waters; constipation, a problem for many patients in which their care could be dramatically improved. Find out how in this...

EuSEM14 roundup

01 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Didn't manage to make it to the European Society of Emergency Medicine conference in Amsterdam, aka #EuSEM14? Well don't worry

RSI - Introduction

24 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Airway management in the form of RSI is a key skill of the Emergency Medicine clinician, this podcast talks through the key parts of RSI. Useful as ei...

Head Injuries - to scan or not to scan

10 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Podcast on NICE head injury

EM in the Military

05 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Prof Col Russell, Defence Consultant Advisor for EM, on EM in the military.

Reboa

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Gareth Davies about an emerging treatment coming to your ED soon.

Paediatric analgesia

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Master Paediatric Analgesia in the ED

Paracetomol overdose

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A podcast about one of the most frequent presentations and poisoning seen in the ED.

In-Situ-Sim

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Nuts and bolts guide to running in-situ sims

Cristal

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Crystalloids vs colloids; the debate continues in this podcast on a recent paper.

Diagnostics in EM

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Hone your diagnostic skills with this podcast on test thresholds and likelihood ratios.

Poisoning

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Learn about a rare type of poisoning which is cropping across the UK

CFN approach to IDU

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Struggling to find a resource on how to approach the IDU, check out this podcast

Who, What and When

01 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the team that will be delivering the CEM FOAMed Network to you from September 2014......

CEM Introductory Podcast

09 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction to the new College of Emergency Medicine Foam ED Podcasts