The Resus Room
Episodes
Decision Making; Roadside to Resus
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Decision making sounds like a slightly academic, niche topic… but in reality, it sits underneath every single thing we do in emergency and pre-hospi...
March 2026; papers of the month
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
March's Papers of the Month is here and we've got three absolute crackers to get stuck into. First up, we head prehospital to explore pseudo-pulseless...
Airway Management in Trauma; Roadside to Resus
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is an absolute cracker! And we can say that as we've got outsider help... We've all been involved with patients where securing the airway...
February 2026; papers of the month
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to February's Papers of the Month. Across these three papers, a common theme emerges: many of the things we do every day are based on hab...
Paediatric Seizures; Roadside to Resus
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Paediatric seizures are common, time-critical events and they're something most of us will deal with, whether that's pre-hospital, in the emergency de...
January 2026; papers of the month
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to January's Papers of the Month, which marks 10 years of the podcast! First up, we look at a large multicentre cohort study from the East of ...
The Wider World of Pre-hospital Care; Roadside to Resus
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this special edition of Roadside to Resus where we're diving into some of the progressive and practice-defining developments in pre-hospita...
December 2025; papers of the month
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
December brings us to the final Papers of the Month for 2025 and we're finishing the year with three studies that challenge assumptions across critica...
Resuscitation Guidelines 2025; Roadside to Resus
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you're just stepping into your first cardiac arrest or you've been running them since the days of paddles, this one's for you. The 2025 resusc...
November 2025; papers of the month
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month we've got four cracking UK-led studies that really speak to how pre-hospital and emergency medicine continue to evolve, not just in the kit...
Pre-Alert '25; Roadside to Resus
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How, when and why to make the call… The pre-alert is one of the most powerful and sometimes most painful parts of emergency care. It can feel like t...
October 2025; papers of the month
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month we've got three really interesting papers that shine a light on aspects of cardiac arrest management that many of us will recognise from cl...
Sickle Cell Disease; Roadside to Resus
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
a focus on its acute presentations and the care we can deliver to improve outcomes for our patients. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a lifelong inherite...
September 2025; papers of the month
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to September's Papers of the Month. We've got three cracking studies for you this time, each tackling really core questions in pre-hospit...
August 2025; papers of the month
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! First up a paper to challenge the way we think about rhythm recognition in cardiac arrest to start with, looking at the rate of VF ident...
Advancing Cardiac Arrest Care, SPEAR; Roadside to Resus
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a pretty special episode! If you're involved in cardiac arrest management or care of critically unwell patients then there's some ground break...
July 2025; papers of the month
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Papers of the Month! Three more papers to both inform and challenge our practice across the spectrum of emergency care. First up we lo...
Pain; Roadside to Resus
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's something we all encounter in emergency and prehospital care, probably more than anything else, yet it's a topic we've not given a full episode t...
June 2025; papers of the month
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to June 2025's papers podcast! Having been cynical about CPR feedback devices in the past we take a look at a recent paper on their use a...
GCS; Roadside to Resus
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! In this episode, we're diving deep into something we all think we know, the Glasgow Coma Scale. The GCS has been a fundamental part of a...
May 2025; papers of the month
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! We've got three papers this month covering the breadth of Emergency Care presentations and locations; from prehospital ar...
Opioid Overdose; Roadside to Resus
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Opioid toxicity is a major and growing challenge across the UK and beyond, with nearly 10 deaths every day from opioid overdose and over a million adu...
April 2025; papers of the month
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to April's Papers of the Month! First up this month we have a think about posterior circulatory strokes, which can mimic benign vertigo, ...
Electrical Injuries; Roadside to Resus
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to The Resus Room! This time, we're diving into the fascinating and often overlooked world of electrical injuries. From household misha...
March 2025; papers of the month
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to March 2025's papers podcast! We start off this month with a fascinating paper looking at the experiences of relatives who were witness...
Maternal Arrest; Roadside to Resus
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiac Arrest in pregnancy affects around 1: 12-30,000 women in the developed world. As you'd expect the risk of death for mother and child is extrem...
February 2025; papers of the month
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to February 2025's papers podcast! This month we're exploring papers on seizure management, oxygen strategies in trauma, along with trans...
Bronchiolitis; Roadside to Resus
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the first Roadside to Resus episode for 2025!! In this episode, we're diving into a seasonally appropriate, and really paediatric comm...
January 2025; papers of the month
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year!!! We hope you've had some time off over the festive period and now we're back to kick start the new year with three more great papers....
Decision Making, Prioritisation, Leadership & EBM; 50 Shades of Critical Care Roadside to Resus
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode we've been wanting to cover for a long time now! In it we explore the challenges in entering and developing in prehospital critica...
December 2024; papers of the month
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A really strong line up of papers to bring this year's evidence round up to a close! First up we take a look at a paper evaluating the utility of puls...
Extrication Consensus Statement FPHC; Roadside to Resus
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Motor vehicle collisions or road traffic collisions are a massive problem worldwide. Data from the World Health Organisation reports that there are ar...
November 2024; papers of the month
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast and to November's Papers of the Month! We start off looking at the rate of pneumothoraces in patients following ROSC after...
Adrenal Crisis; Roadside to Resus
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're going to be running through adrenal presentations; both Adrenal insufficiency and Adrenal Crisis. There are some parts of these ...
October 2024; papers of the month
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to October's Papers of the Month. We've been really spoilt with three fantastic papers to discuss this month! First up we take a look at...
Pulmonary Embolism; Roadside to Resus
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PE's (or Pulmonary Emboli) are a key part of Emergency Care, something that many of us will consider as a differential diagnosis multiple times of a d...
September 2024; papers of the month
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back after the summer break! Three more papers for you to feast your ears on this month and as always make sure you go and check them out your...
August 2024; papers of the month
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK REBOA trial left many with doubts over its utility for trauma patients in ED. The time from injury to its use was around 90 minutes and the tri...
Acute Kidney Injury; Roadside to Resus
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Acute Kidney Injury is common, complicated and holds significant morbidity and mortality. But...if we recognise it, we can make a real difference to o...
July 2024; papers of the month
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's a huge paper to talk about this month in the PREOXI trial, a multi centre RCT looking at the pre oxygenation strategy in critically unwell pat...
Major Incident Triage; Roadside to Resus
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So this month we're looking at major incidents and specifically the triage process that is now coming into play in the UK and further afield that you ...
June 2024; papers of the month
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to June's Papers of the month! We kick off this month looking at the work up of patients with a first episode of psychosis. With these pa...
Cardiac Arrest, Start With The End In Mind; Roadside to Resus
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We've covered Cardiac Arrest management (as in the medical delivery of it) in a previous Roadside to Resusepsiode. Since then we've had some updates w...
May 2024; papers of the month
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast and three great papers for May's episode! First up we take a pretty deep look into refractory VF. This follows on from our...
Cauda Equina Syndrome; Roadside to Resus
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lower back pain is a really common cause for patients to present to primary care, urgent care and emergency care. Thankfully many of these cases are s...
April 2024; papers of the month
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! Three more papers covering topics that are relevant to all of our practice. The importance of removing wet clothes from p...
End Tidal CO2; Roadside to Resus
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
End Tidal CO2, or ETCO2 for short, is something that's talked about pretty often in Emergency and Critical Care and that's because it's used a lot in ...
March 2024; papers of the month
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast, a new month, three more papers and discussion around the topics. We kick off with a paper comparing mechanical ventilatio...
Refractory VF; Roadside to Resus
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we all know, rapid and effective resuscitation makes a huge difference to the chance of survival from a cardiac arrest. If you're going to pick a r...
February 2024; papers of the month
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to February's papers of the month. Syncope is a really common presentation to the Emergency Department and it can be complicated to tease...
Paediatric Fever; Roadside to Resus
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fever is an incredibly effective mechanism to fight off pathogens. Clearly, whilst many illnesses that cause a fever don't require anything more than ...
January 2024; papers of the month
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! We've got some great topic and in person events lined up for 2024 which we'll be able to share some more details about with you soon. ...
Caring in a Broken System; Roadside to Resus
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We know it's the festive season but we thought we'd try and cover an issue from which there appears to be no escape and is a particular problem at thi...
December 2023; papers of the month
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've talked about Aortic Dissection before in our Roadside to Resus episode and the huge difficulties in picking out these rare but potentially devas...
Blood gases; Roadside to Resus
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blood gases are really commonly used in ED, Critical Care, Respiratory Medicine and Prehospitally. In fact, you'd do well to walk 10 meters in an ED w...
November 2023; papers of the month
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well this has been a huge month for Emergency Medicine and Critical Care in terms of papers! We start off looking at REBOA; many resuscitationist's fa...
Spontaneous Pneumothorax; Roadside to Resus
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're going to cover the 'atraumatic' or 'spontaneous' pneumothoraces and focus on some new key guidelines from the British Thoracic S...
October 2023; papers of the month
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! This month we kick off looking at an RCT which looks at whether we should convey patients with a ROSC from a likely cardiac cause (witho...
End of Life Care; Roadside to Resus
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Delivering excellent End of Life Care in the Emergency Care is a real challenge but also a huge privilege and has formed some of the most rewarding pa...
ACPIC 2023; conference episode
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast, coming to you all the way from Australia! Rob and James were fortunate enough to be invited to deliver the keynote and an...
September 2023; papers of the month
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! We're back with three really interesting papers after our summer break, with some great points to think about with regard...
August 2023; papers of the month
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back, this is our last podcast before our short summer break! We start off having a look at the physiological effects of prolonged resuscitati...
Trauma Primary Survey; Roadside to Resus
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So in this episode we're going to run though the primary survey in trauma. This clinical assessment helps us identify and treat life threatening injur...
July 2023; papers of the month
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There have been some huge trials released over the last month and we've got three brilliant papers to discuss! First up we take a look at an RCT on vi...
Traumatic Pneumothorax; Roadside to Resus
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of two episodes looking at pneumothoraces. In this episode we're going to start out by taking a look at traumatic pneumothoraces. Tr...
June 2023; papers of the month
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast and to the first episode in collaboration with our new sponsors Zoll, a huge thanks to them in their support of free open ...
Head Injury Updates; Roadside to Resus
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The last time we took a good look at head injuries was back in 2018 in our Roadside to Resus episodes and for all of the foundational stuff on inciden...
May 2023; papers of the month
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month we start off with a paper looking at the first pass success rate of intubation in cardiac arrest when performing continual CPR versus pausi...
Can't Intubate Can't Oxygenate; Roadside to Resus
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Being in a situation of being unable to intubate and unable to oxygenate is an absolute time critical emergency. Focus needs to be paid to the techn...
April 2023; papers of the month
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! This month we start off thinking about sepsis, specifically fluid management and whether a restrictive approach to fluid ...
Neck of Femur Fractures; Roadside to Resus
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So NOF's aren't the most glamorous of topics to cover on a podcast, but the difference we can make to patients but refining our care is huge. Neck o...
March 2023; papers of the month
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! ECMO-CPR is a growing conversation in the world of cardiac arrest management. This month we have a look at a paper which ...
Crush; Roadside to Resus
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So in this episode we're going to be covering crush injury. When you think about it, visions of falling rocks, industrial accidents and high speed R...
February 2023; papers of the month
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! Three more papers for you this month to inform and improve our care in acute and critical illness. First up and following on from the re...
COPD; Roadside to Resus
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to our first Roadside to Resus episode for 2023! We're back with the huge topic that is COPD. In this episode we're going to delve into t...
January 2023; papers of the month
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to 2023 and a very happy New Year! We hope you managed to get some time with your loved ones over the festive period and we're back with the p...
Pacing; Roadside to Resus
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So following on from our Bradycardia episode, we're going to look in detail at cardiac pacing. Setting up emergency pacing in those compromised bradyc...
December 2022; papers of the month
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to 200th episode of the podcast! A huge thank to all of you for your support and engagement. Three more papers for you this month to chal...
Acute Behavioural Disturbance; Roadside to Resus
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD), one of the most challenging, dangerous and serious presentations that we will encounter in emergency management o...
November 2022; papers of the month
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast and to November's Papers Of The Month. First up we're taking a look at a paper that challenges the current American Heart...
Bradycardia; Roadside to Resus
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've covered tachycardias, both narrow and broad before, but we need to complete the set. So this time we'll be looking at the slower end of the sp...
October 2022; papers of the month
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! First up this month we're going have a think about fluid therapy, following an RCT focussing on those patients attending ...
Extrication; Roadside to Resus
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite all the improvements that we have seen in trauma care over the past 20 or more years RTCs are still, sadly, a really common cause of both deat...
September 2022; papers of the month
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! It's brilliant to be back after our summer break and we've got three great papers for you. First up we take a look at a p...
August 2022; papers of the month
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! This month we take a look at 3 papers covering the breadth of Emergency Care. First up we look at a paper evaluating outcomes for patie...
Lactate; Roadside to Resus
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So when people talk about patients having a high lactate we think about them being sick, it can at times be easy to slip into thinking that this equal...
July 2022; papers of the month
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Intraosseous Access; Roadside to Resus
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So, as we all know, there are loads of presentations that we see in Emergency Medicine that require us to gain rapid access to the circulation. Either...
June 2022; papers of the month
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to June '22 papers podcast! This month we start off with a look at rocuronium dosing in RSI; could a simple change of dosage lead to an i...
Leadership and Followership; Roadside to Resus
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk a lot about the different skills involved in the management of the critically unwell patient; CPR, airway management, defibrillation, chest dr...
May 2022; papers of the month
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to May's papers of the month! First up this month we'll be looking at an RCT focussed on prehospital intra-arrest management and comparin...
Acute Aortic Syndromes; Roadside to Resus
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have been wanting to do an episode on aortic dissections for quite a while now but you will see that what we've actually gone and done is created a...
April 2022; papers of the month
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to April '22 papers of the month podcast! We start off this month with a paper looking at the effect of a structured airway course on fir...
Debrief - Roadside to Resus
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Debrief is an extremely important topic both in the prehospital and in-hospital environment. It offers the opportunity to clarify, reflect and improve...
March 2022; papers of the month
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to March '22 Papers Podcast! This month we have a think about causes and coping strategies for Emergency Clinicians involved in stressful...
Broad Complex Tachycardia; Roadside to Resus
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So in our last Roadside to Resus episode we covered narrow complex tachycardias. In that we delved pretty deep into the normal cardiac conductance alo...
February 2022; papers of the month
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we've got three papers covering a wide variety of topics and practice in emergency care. First up we'll be looking at whether pre-charging ...
Narrow Complex Tachycardia; Roadside to Resus
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So in this episode we run through narrow complex tachycardias, not I hear you say a perfect visual topic for an audio platform like a podcast, but hol...
January 2022; papers of the month
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! Well we've got three really excellent papers to start off your new year with! First up we take a look at the complication rates seen w...
Ventilation; Roadside to Resus
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Critically unwell patients often present with inadequate oxygenation and ventilation, in this episode we're going to explore some of the physiology of...