The Resus Room
Episodes
December 2021; papers of the month
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to December's paper of the month podcast! In the first paper this month we take a look at a paper that assesses the utility of CT scans f...
Breaking Bad News; Roadside to Resus
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Being involved in Emergency Care, by it's very nature, sadly means that we will have to break bad news to patients and families both in the prehospita...
November 2021; papers of the month
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the papers of the month podcast! First up we take a look at a paper assessing the importance of symptoms and sings in suspected Cauda ...
Intubation; The Discussion
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So following on from the Roadside to Resus episode on intubation there were a lot of questions from listeners that we didn't have the opportunity to a...
Intubation; Roadside to Resus
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Intubation is a key part of advanced airway management. Although some of you out there may not intubate, we'll be covering aspects where the identific...
October 2021; papers of the month
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to October's papers of the month! Should patients who gain a ROSC following an out of hospital cardiac arrest go for an immediate angiogram if...
Acute Coronary Syndrome; Roadside to Resus
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So this time we're going to be looking at the HUGE topic of acute coronary syndrome (ACS)! ACS ranges from patients who appear well at the time of the...
September 2021; papers of the month
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back after our summer hiatus to September's Papers Podcast! Firstly we take a look at two different strategies for managing agitation in the E...
August 2021; papers of the month
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to August 2021's papers podcast! Three more great papers for you this month which have challenged and informed our practice. First up we look ...
Pre Alert; Roadside to Resus
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So welcome back to another Roadside to Resus episode! Pre alerts are a key part of the interface between pre hospital and in hospital care of the crit...
July 2021; papers of the month
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Another month and 3 more papers! First up we have a look at a paper that has grabbed a lot of recent headlines in the form of TTM2. So we now seem to ...
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage; Roadside to Resus
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So this time we're going to be talking about subarachnoid haemorrhage. So this is going to be a short and punchy look at a really important and intere...
June 2021; papers of the month
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month we've got three papers that have challenged our practice both from an in-hospital and pre-hospital perspective. Firstly we consider a paper...
Resuscitation Guidelines 2021; Roadside to Resus
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So the Resuscitation Council UK have today published new guidelines on resuscitation based on the European Resuscitation Council 2021 Guidelines and r...
May 2021; papers of the month
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to May's Papers of the Month Podcast! Three more papers for you on three varied topics. We start off with the use of end tidal carbon dio...
Newborn Life Support; Roadside to Resus
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So last month we considered Maternal Emergencies and the approach and interventions we can make in order to minimise complications during pregnancy an...
April 2021; papers of the month
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Well if last month was based on cardiac arrest, this month takes a deeper look at airways! First up we take a look at a paper that benchmarks the use ...
Maternal Emergencies; Roadside to Resus
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So this is the first of a pregnancy related double-header, with the focus being firmly set on the mother this month and next month we'll focus in on N...
March 2021; papers of the month
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So this month we've got a cardiac-arrest-fest for you! With 3 papers centered on the management of cardiac arrest, with some key points that will help...
Diabetic Ketoacidosis; Roadside to Resus
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast and our next Roadside to Resus episode, this time we're taking a look at Diabetic Ketoacidosis, DKA. In this episode we'll...
February 2021; papers of the month
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So three very different papers for you this month... We start off having a look at a paper on the HINTS examination. This exam came to prominence a fe...
Supraglottic Airways; Roadside to Resus
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So in this episode we're going to have a deeper think about advanced airway management and specifically supraglottic use in the prehospital and ED env...
January 2021; papers of the month
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! Well 2020 certainly wasn't what we were all expecting, so here's hoping for a phenomenally better 2021. We've got some really exciting...
Contrast Induced Nephropathy
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So for decades people have talked about Contrast Induced Nephropathy…or Contrast Induced Acute Kidney Injury, depending on the decade and location o...
December 2020; papers of the month
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to December's Papers of The Month Podcast! Three more papers for you which will challenge and inform you practice. First up we have a loo...
Anaphylaxis; Roadside to Resus
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode of Roadside to Resus we're going to take a look Anaphylaxis, which has been highlighted on a national lev...
November 2020; papers of the month
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to November's papers of the month podcast! This month we kick things off looking at TXA in trauma and consider in complex scenes and resource ...
Poisoning; Roadside to Resus
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So in our Toxidrome Roadside to Resus episode we covered the initial management of a poisoned patient, some of the constellation of features to look o...
October 2020; papers of the month
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the Papers of the Month podcast, once again we've got 3 more papers to inform, discuss and hopefully improve our practice. First up we...
Toxidromes; Roadside to Resus
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drug ingestion both accidental and intentional accounts for a significant proportion of attendances at UK Emergency Departments and 999 calls. In 2016...
September 2020; papers of the month
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back!! So we've had a small summer hiatus and are now back with another Papers of The Month and a jam packed line up of episodes for the rest ...
August 2020; papers of the month
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So this is our last episode before a small summer hiatus, so it better be a good one! Journals are littered with some great article...
Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; Roadside to Resus
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The more you delve into cardiac arrest, the more it seems that delivering the essentials well is the key to great outcomes; timely recognition, high q...
July 2020; papers of the month
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are more great pieces of research to enjoy this month! We start off with a paper following on nicely from our Roadside to Resus episode on Stabb...
TXA in GI Bleeds, HALT-IT; Roadside to Resus
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tranexamic Acid (TXA) has gained a significant amount of attention over the last few years as multiple studies have shown it's utility in decreasing h...
June 2020; papers of the month
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to June's Papers Podcast! Traditionally when you're taught about working a patient up for a potential diagnosis you'll find a list of sig...
Transfer; Roadside to Resus
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transfers of patients happen all the time. It's easy to think about transfers as only those that involve an ambulance and moving patients from one hos...
May 2020; papers of the month
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to May's papers of the month podcast. Hope you are all well and keeping safe. This month James joins Simon to discuss some of the great work p...
Pelvic Injury; Roadside to Resus
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fractures of the pelvis are found reasonably often in major trauma, but they're a really challenging presentation. They are difficult to assess and ac...
Respiratory Strategies in COVID-19
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So COVID-19 has produced a multitude of challenges to healthcare providers, the response to these challenges has been phenomenal. One uncertainty is t...
April 2020; papers of the month
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First we hope you're all well. The world has changed dramatically over the the last few weeks and you are all doing a phenomenal job of providing heal...
Cutting Edge PHEM; Roadside to Resus
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Excellent practice is led by following the high quality evidence based medicine, and there have been a lot of great papers published in the last 12 mo...
March 2020; papers of the month
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We've got a great spread of topics for you this month, stretching all the way from Prehospital Critical Care, to core Emergency Medicine topics. Those...
Stabbing; Roadside to Resus
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Figures for the year ending September 2019 showed a 7% rise in offences involving knives or sharp instruments recorded by the police (to 44,771 offenc...
February 2020; papers of the month
01 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! Three very different topics and papers for you this month. First up we have a look at the risk/benefit of sending troponins on patients ...
Seizures; Roadside to Resus
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seizures are defined as a "paroxysmal electrical discharge of the neurones in the brain resulting in a change of function or behaviour". All of us inv...
January 2020; papers of the month
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year!! We hope you've all had a great Christmas and New Year and that you managed to get some well earned time off over the festive period. ...
Pre-Hospital Critical Care; London Trauma Conference 2019
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
REBOA, ECMO, Thoracotomy? Where should we be focussing our attention in the world of Pre-hospital care? We were lucky enough to be invited to the Lond...
December 2019; papers of the month
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well the year has flown by and it's already time for December's Papers of the Month Podcast! Head injuries are a huge work load for those of us involv...
Angioedema
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Angioedema is something we'll all encounter in the acute setting, whether we recognise it or not... Understanding the different causes and mechanisms ...
Community Emergency Medicine
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As care on our emergency and urgent care demand is on an ever upwards course, whilst alongside this the scope of what we can potentially deliver to pa...
November 2019; papers of the month
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We've got some papers this month that focus on our sickest patients! If you had a patient that you found in cardiac arrest and you believed they had a...
Can TXA save lives in head injuries, CRASH-3; Roadside to Resus
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
So an incredibly important paper, CRASH-3 has just been published in the Lancet, which looks at the treatment of head injuries with Tranexamic Acid (T...
October 2019; papers of the month
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to October '19 papers podcast. You can't go far without the topic of TXA as a treatment for anything that bleeds being mentioned! With the pub...
Shock in Trauma; Roadside to Resus
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
So as promised, and following on from our previous shock episode, this time we've covered the topic of shock in Trauma. It's a massive topic and one t...
September 2019; papers of the month
01 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We start off this month with a much talked about paper in the pre-hospital services, what benefit does Pre Hospital Critical Care bring to cardiac arr...
Stroke Management; Roadside to Resus
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from our previous Roadside to Resus episode on Stroke, in this episode we look at the rapidly evolving area of stroke management. In th...
August 2019; papers of the month
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well the summer has definitely hit and we hope you get a chance for a break... making sure you spend spend some time listening to our Heat Illness epi...
Stroke; Roadside to Resus
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stroke is a common presentation to all Emergency Health care providers, with around 150,000 strokes occurring in the UK each year! Our impact and trea...
July 2019; papers of the month
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! This month we're finishing off our theme of syncope with a paper that looks to answer the big question; in those with undifferentiated s...
Heat Illness; Roadside to Resus
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you live in the UK you may be fooled in to thinking that Heat Illness isn't really something we need to worry about...but you'd be wrong! Each year...
June 2019; papers of the month
01 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Status Epilepticus in children, lying and standing blood pressures in syncope or presyncope and decompressing paediatric tension pneumothoraces. You'l...
Drowning; Roadside to Resus
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Drowning is a huge worldwide problem, and here in the UK there are around 350 accidental deaths from drowning each year. From the patient who is poten...
May 2019; papers of the month
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
So first up a huge welcome to SJTREM, the free open access journal who we've teamed up with in the delivery of the podcast, every paper they publish i...
GCS 8, intubate?
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
'Patients with GCS scores of 8 or less require prompt intubation', that's what ATLS tells us. The mantra of GCS 8, intubate has pervaded teaching for...
April 2019; papers of the month
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
So we've got a massively important paper that we're going to kick off April's Papers of the Month podcast with, which is the RCT we've been waiting fo...
Advanced Airway Management Updates
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We were lucky enough to be back at the fantastic TraumaCare Conference last week. There were a whole host of fantastic talks on offer and the Emergen...
March 2019; papers of the month
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We've got a broad array of topics and papers for you this month! First up we look at a paper from the NEJM assessing the potential benefits in providi...
Hypothermia; Roadside to Resus
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hypothermia is a common problem for both pre and in-hospital clinicians. Understanding the underpinning physiology helps us deliver first class care t...
February 2019; papers of the month
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ketamine and trauma are the topics for this months papers. The three papers we cover are really important for all of us involved in the care of critic...
Shock; Roadside to Resus
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you're involved in the care of critically unwell patients then you will frequently encounter patients who are shocked. The European Society of Inte...
January 2019; papers of the month
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year!! Hopefully you got a bit of downtime over the festive period and are feeling suitably refreshed and ready to attack 2019! We've got 3...
Christmas Special '18
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Festive greetings to all! We hope you've had a fantastic 2018 and have some time off over Xmas and New Year to celebrate with friends and family. We t...
Cardiac Arrest Masterclass; London Trauma Conference 2018
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiac arrest management is core business of a resuscitationist and practice is constantly evolving in the pursuit of improving patient outcomes. W...
December 2018; papers of the month
01 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Well the year maybe coming to a close but the high quality papers keep on coming out! We've got 3 great articles to cover in this episode which have s...
Chemical Burns, Maternal arrest, Amputation and Mental Toughness; BASICSFPHC18 Day 2
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We were delighted to be back to cover the joint Faculty of Prehospital Care and BASICS conference, day 2, held at the Royal College of Surgeons of E...
Sick Paeds, Extrication and Drowning; BASICSFPHC18 Day 1
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We were delighted to be invited to cover the joint Faculty of Prehospital Care and BASICS conference held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburg...
Cricoid Pressure; Roadside to Resus
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've heard a lot about advanced airway management recently, with some really significant publications over the last few months and in the last few we...
November 2018; papers of the month
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to November's Papers Podcast! We've got 3 great papers for you again this month. First up we take a look at a paper that looks to quantif...
Burns; Roadside to Resus
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With bonfire night approaching we thought it would be a good time to have a think about burns. However burns are a significant issue at all times of y...
October 2018; papers of the month
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to October's Papers Podcast, this month we move airway from advanced airway management and bring you a broad array of papers. First up we...
September 2018; papers of the month
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
So we're back with September's papers of the month a little later than usual but we wanted to give you a little time to digest AIRWAYS-2... before we ...
Intubation or supraglottic airway in cardiac arrest; AIRWAYS-2
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
So we're back from our summer hiatus with a real treat. The long awaited AIRWAYS-2 paper has just been released and we've been lucky enough to speak w...
August 2018; papers of the month
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to August's papers of the month. So this is our last offering for the summer until whilst we take a short break until September, so we had to ...
Adrenaline in Cardiac Arrest; PARAMEDIC2
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Drugs in cardiac arrest are controversial. Prehospital research is notoriously difficult to perform. PARAMEDIC2 has just published in the New England ...
Head Injury; Roadside to Resus
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Head injury worldwide is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Besides prevention there isn't anything that can be done to improve the resul...
July 2018; papers of the month
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to July's papers podcast. There has been a plethora of superb and thought provoking papers published this month and we've got the best 3 tha...
External Haemorrhage; Roadside to Resus
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Managing external haemorrhage is easy right?! Then why does haemorrhage remain a major cause of death from trauma worldwide? Ok, some of that is from ...
June 2018; papers of the month
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to our monthly round up of the best papers in the resuscitation world. Again we've got 3 great papers covering some really important poin...
Paediatric Arrest; Roadside to Resus
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The management of a cardiac arrest can be stressful at the best of times, but add into that the patient being a child and you have the potential for a...
Top 10 Trauma Papers 2018
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Simon Carley from St. Emlyns caught up with us at the superb Trauma Care Conference and talked through his top papers in trauma from the las...
May 2018; papers of the month
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dare we say it, we think this month's papers podcast is the best yet, we've got 3 superb papers and topics to consider! The literature has been pretty...
Statistics Demystified
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Evidence based medicine (EBM) allows us to deliver the best care to our patients and understanding the concepts involved is crucial. Over the last 18 ...
Trauma Care 2018
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode we've been lucky enough to catch a number of the speakers from the traumacare conference. First up, conference organiser Caroline Lee...
A case to make you think...
08 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Rob takes us through a case he saw recently that brought about some invaluable learning. We're not going to give you anymore clues tha...
April 2018; papers of the month
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to April's papers of the month. We've got 3 papers this month that look to challenge our work up strategies for the critically unwell....
RSI; Roadside to Resus
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gaining control of the airway in a critically unwell patient is a key skill of the critical care team and littered with potential for difficulty and c...
The Crystalloid Debate
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How often do you prescribe or give i.v. fluids to your patients? How much thought goes into what's contained in that fluid? What effect will you fluid...
March 2018; papers of the month
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to March's papers of the month. We know we're biased but we've got 3 more superb papers for you this month! First up we review a paper lookin...
Sepsis; Roadside to Resus
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
So the three of us are back together and going to take on Sepsis! It's vital to have a sound understanding of sepsis. It has a huge morbidity and mort...