EMJ Podcast July 2021

There are many components of looking after overseas doctors. Many of them are intuitive and seem common sense, but our experience suggests the basics are often done poorly. We define an overseas doctors as a doctor who has trained, and probably worked, abroad who is embarking on a new healthcare career in the NHS.

This month we have a slightly different format. Andy and Dave are here with 3 New in EM and Becky and Chris join us for a guideline review. We discuss Are you learning from Podcasts While Driving?, metoclopramide for post traumatic headache, EM Pain Management and Awareness and paralysis with intubation in the ED

Colles' fractures are a common presentation to emergency departments across the globe. The eponymous fracture is a dorsally angulated extra-articular distal radial metaphyseal single segment fracture. Everything else is a distal radial fracture or a Smiths or a Bartons or a Chauffeur fracture or Galeazzi.