A 45 year old man is brought to ED after his neighbours call an ambulance, concerned that he looks ‘unwell’. The paramedic crew bring him to resus since he appears cyanotic with sats of 82…
The 3Cs of Paediatrics
It’s Friday evening and you’re at work in the ED (where else would you rather be??). Jack is a 15 year old boy who has taken an overdose of paracetamol a couple of hours ago. He texted his…
A Blood Gas Brain Freeze
You are asked to see a 51-year-old lady who has been taken to the resus room. The ambulance crew tell you she has taken an overdose 5 hours previously…
The Mental Health Act and Emergency Medicine
Approximately 10% of all admissions to the Emergency Department (ED) are related to patients having a mental health crisis. With the ever increasing numbers of patients requiring mental health input,…
Drug Induced Hyperthermia
Body temperature depends upon a balance of heat production and heat loss. Hyperthermia occurs when heat production exceeds heat loss.…
A Supratherapeutic Surprise
This case describes a therapeutic excess of paracetamol and explores the further management of complications in an unintentional paracetamol overdose.…
Local Anaesthetics
Local anaesthetics are amongst the most widely used drugs in any emergency department. It is, therefore, essential that doctors from emergency medicine are able to use these drugs safely and effective…
Propofol for Procedural Sedation in Adults
This session covers indications for propofol sedation, identifying at risk patients, a standardised procedure (protocol), strategies for addressing adverse events, a section on advanced procedural sed…
February 2018
The February Podcast from the Team…
January 2018
January 2018…
RCEM Blog Book 2
Temp Taking and how to Take it by Andy Neill, A new Dawn for Stroke Patients by Nikki Abela, and Arrest Asthma by James Yates…
November 2017
The RCEMLearning podcast for November 2017…
August 2017
The new podcast for August 2017…
May 2017
Welcome back to the RCEM Learning podcast for May 2017…
April 2017
Welcome to the new format podcast. From now on you’ll be getting a monthly podcast with lots of different segments to try and cover as much as we possibly can…
Constipation
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 podcast…
Paracetamol Overdose
A podcast about one of the most frequent presentations and poisoning seen in the ED…
Poisoning
Learn about a rare type of poisoning which is cropping across the UK…
Angioedema
Urticaria (hives) and angioedema are part of a spectrum of allergic symptoms and occasionally have a non-allergic aetiology.…