A 45-year-old female attended the Emergency Department after taking an intentional antifreeze overdose.…
The ALS Algorithm
This session covers the Advanced Life Support (ALS) algorithm (2010), which provides an evidence-based template for your clinical skills…
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…
Paediatric Toxicology Considerations
The presentation of a child to the emergency department (ED) by concerned parents after ingestion of a potential toxin is a frequent occurrence.…
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,…
A Supratherapeutic Surprise
This case describes a therapeutic excess of paracetamol and explores the further management of complications in an unintentional paracetamol overdose.…
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…
April 2018
The latest podcast from the RCEMLearning team…
Paracetamol overdose
So the TOXABSE guidelines for staggered paracetamol overdose last night. We bring you an up to date podcast on paracetamol overdose management recorded at the recent RCEM scientific conference with Ja…
August 2017
The new podcast for August 2017…
RCEM Belfast Day 3
Day 3 at #RCEMBelfast continued on yesterday’s medical thread, with an excellent talk on Heart Failure by consultant Cardiologist Mark Petrie…
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…
CFN approach to IDU
Struggling to find a resource on how to approach the IDU, check out this podcast…