The St.Emlyn’s Podcast

Chris brought us his reflections amnd knowledge from some of his extensive experience as a military EM consultant in two wars. Blast injury could be blunt, penetrating, may involve major haemorrhage: you have to expect any injury possible. It’s worldwide and it’s getting more common.  Blast injury affects every body cavity, but it is the CABC approach that matters, Doing the basics well is still t...

This is the second in our series of talks recorded live in June 2023 at the PREMIER conference. Looking after patients with non-epileptiform seizures are a challenging, and common, event in the Emergency Department. 10% of attendances at paediatric neurology clinics are thought to be 'functional' and a lot of these will also present to the ED. These problems can involve a wide range of physical or...

This is the first in a series of podcasts, recorded live at the Premier Conference in Winchester. In this episode, David James challenges our current practice when we give a 'weaning plan' for children discharged with wheeze.  There is a plan here that you can review and give to patients and their carers. More information at these excellent websites PIER Network Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team H...

The monthly round up of all the blog posts at St Emlyn's, including a deep dive into HALO (high acuity, low occurrence) procedures and blood transfusion.  Thanks again for listening. Please do like and subscribe here. 

Our monthly podcast round up from St Emlyn's Blog. This month Simon and Iain discuss the prehospital use of troponin measurement in the assessment of patients with chest pain and the use of AI in medicine , as well as an update about St Emlyn's WILD . Please do like and subscribe

This is the first podcast in our new series from St Emlyn's Medical School . They are specifically aimed at healthcare students and focus on the Medical Licensing Assessment (UK) presentations in particular but will be useful wherever you listen in the world.  Each episode has a standard format with a case to set the scene, a set of learning objectives, a discussion, a summary and a case resolutio...

The latest CAN is one of our brand-new 'revision editions' -- brief podcasts aimed at covering the essentials of critical appraisal for medical students and junior doctors preparing for exams. With the help of Gregory Yates , an academic doctor based in Manchester, this episode introduces two core concepts: sensitivity and specificity. These are two ways of thinking about the accuracy of a diagnos...

Our regular monthly round up and chat from the St Emlyn's blog. We talk about the use of artificial intelligence in research and the use of remifentanil instead of neuromuscular blockade in rapid sequence intubation. Plus more about the StEmlynsWILD conference and Simon's new role as Dean of RCEM and how you can get involved. 

Long term listeners to the St Emlyn’s podcast may remember our series entitled ‘Critical Appraisal Nuggets’ (CANs). We are absolutely delighted to reinvigorate this project under the leadership of  Professor Rick Body , with the episode on semi structured interviews. In this easily digestible and succinct podcast Rick and  Laura Howard  go through the pros and cons of setting up semi structured in...

Lots of chat about St Emlyn's WILD and just what you can expect if you join us in the Lake District in June, as well as discussion about ECMO in cardiac arrest and just how many of our patients with ' minor head injuries ' will actually have ongoing symptoms weeks and even months later.    Click here to buy tickets for #StEmlynsWILD

A special double edition covering the blog posts from November and December and more. We discuss evidence based medicine with the DoseVF trial, and more from RECOVERY, discussion about ' what is downtime ' and how we organise follow up for patients who don't live in our area and what happened at the amazing London Trauma Conference We also announced some of the plans for StEmlynsWILD . Look out fo...

Wellbeing is very complex, as it is an individual construct that is strongly aligned and interpreted through a lens of personal values, philosophy, culture, faith, and goals for life. Most importantly, wellbeing is dynamic rather than homeostatic and a subjective state determined by the individual. Yet we use the term wellbeing to describe a wide variety of different things (often in terms of bein...

Burnout is a term that seems to be used a lot these days, but what does it really mean? In this episode Dr Liz Crowe explains all, and will almost certainly change the way you view burnout.  Liz, who be well known to St Emyn's audiences, has just completed her PhD on " Understanding the risk and protective factors for burnout and wellbeing of staff working in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: PI...

In our new regular slot of the middle Monday of the month we're delighted to bring you the highlights from the St Emlyn's blog this month., Iain and Simon chat about batching in EDs , Ossilation in decision making and a whole lot more about trauma (chest drains, extrication, sex and TXA and rib fixation). Please do like and subscribe and keep an eye out for our new sister website St Emlyn's Medica...

Join Iain and Simon for this month's round up of September's blog content from St Emlyn's. They discuss managing harm in the ED ; management of traumatic brain injury ; Head Up mechanical CPR and fentanyl in RSI. Lots to think about and discuss. Please do like and subscribe and get in touch if there is anything you'd like us to cover on the blog and podcast, or perhaps you'd even like to write som...

This is our round up of all that happened on the St Emlyn's blog in August 2022 (yes - we know it's a bit late, but there's been a lot going on!). Listen to Simon and Iain discuss the latest therapies in COVID, particularly Baricitinib , calcium in trauma and how we find balance in our work-life blend . Please do like and subscribe to the podcast and tell your friends and colleagues. We've lots of...

Simon and Iain run through the latest highlights from the St Emlyn's blog and podcast, including the FORCE study , the EXIT study and more about Vitamin C in sepsis ...   We hope you enjoy the podcast. Please do like and subscribe on your preferred podcast app and tell your friends and colleagues about us. 

Our monthly round up of all from the St Emlyn's blog. We discuss pathways into emergency care research , pad positioning in cardioversion of AF and possible gender differences in the presciption of TXA in trauma . We also chat about travel in Lithuania, memories of defibrillating with hand held paddles and Simon's recent forst infection with COVID. We mention a post on Lyme disease which you can r...

After a brief hiatus we're back with more from the St Emlyn's Blog . We discuss a wide range of topics from crowding in Emergency Departments and the RePHILL trial to breastfeeding , genetic testing and diagnosing DVTs , as well as our highlights from the recent RCEM CPD Conference in Bournemouth. There really is something for everyone! 

We made it! A double century of podcasts. In this month's update Iain and Simon talk through myth busting in resuscitation , Rick Body's airway expertise (with a side mention for high sensitivity troponin), a paper about resuscitative thoracotomy , ACPs in EM and how we all could set future research priorties . Thank you again for listening to the St Emlyn's podcast. We really do hope that you enj...

Simon and Natalie discuss some of the complexities of feedback when it involved different specialities and patients. We also review our general rules of feedback.   See https://www.stemlynsblog.org/?s=feedback for more.

The first episode of our 9th Season with discussion about Calcium in cardiac arrest, a deep dive into the physiology of exsanguinating haemorrhage, a comparison of ketamine and etomidate for induction of anaesthesia and the ECG Thrust.  Please do like, subscribe and tell your friends about the St Emlyn's podcast. 

The Season Finale that you've all be waiting for. Our last episode of season 8 includes discussion about racial bias in sats monitoring, CT scans to investigate subarachnoid haemorrhage and the  importance of (consensual) touch.  Thanks again for listening. Please like and subscribe and all that. We look forward to seeing you next season (in about a month...) Iain and Simon

Iain is flying solo this month, with discussion about narrative story tellling , airway management in the ED and using pigtail catheters in management of haemothorax .  We hope all you all have a very happy Christmas and chance over the festive period to relax. Do explore our back catalogue of podcasts for more on wellbeing and grief at Christmas .  Please do subscribe and rate and review us on yo...

Our round up of all the blog had to offer in October 2021. There's discussion about evidence based medine in the REST and CTCA for intermediate chest pain trials, more about cauda equina and highlights from the Paediatric Colloquium in Australia, as well as the good humoured chat. Please see the website for more information and don't forget to subscribe and rate the podcast (if you think it's any...