The St.Emlyn’s Podcast

The round up of the St Emlyn's blog posts in August 2021, featuring discussion about therapeutic anticoagulation in hospitalised COVID-19 patients, non invasive ventilation vs usual care for critically hypoxic COVID-19 patients and the recent EMTA (Emergency Medicine Trainees Association) survey. Oh, and Simon's mid-life crisis. 

Iain and Simon discuss the best from the blog in June and July. There's COVID chat (of course). thunderstorm asthma, a glance into the future and much, much more. 

It's been a busy month on the blog with plenty for Iain and Simon to talk about. The Manchester Arena bombing, new guidelines for Anaphylaxis management, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Calcium in Major Haemorrhage and Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection all get a mention alongside the usual witterings of two middle aged emergency physicians. 

This is the second in a two part podcast series discussing Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) and how these patients may present to the Emergency Department (ED). Dr Sam Fitzsimmons, our guest on the podcast, is a Consultant in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at University Hospital Southampton. There is more information in this blog post . In this episode we discuss Eisenmenger Syndrome, Transpo...

This is the first in a two part podcast series discussing Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) and how these patients may present to the Emergency Department (ED). Dr Sam Fitzsimmons, our guest on the podcast, is a Consultant in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at University Hospital Southampton. There is more information in this blog post . Look out for Part 2, which will be released next week, wh...

A podcast with Iain and Simon summarising all the latest content from the St Emlyn's blog in April 2021. Topics discussed include Vaccine Induced Thrombocytopenic Thrombosis, how our own biases can effect our critical appraisal and whether we need to worry about grading the quality of FOAMed resources. Thanks for listening. Please check out the blogs themselevs at www.stemlynsblog.org and consider...

Simon joins Ankur Verma from Delhi, to talk about the impact of COVID in the latest wave devastating India.

A discussion about all the latest from the St Emlyn's blog , including a hot off the press article about vaccine induced thrombocytopenic thrombosis and the new FRCEM revision guide .  Simon and Iain also talk about the latest results from the RECOVERY trial , Major Trauma Triage tools , cricothyroidotomy , thromboprophylaxis in COVID19 and the new Medical Licensing Assessment for medical students...

An audio review of a paper in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine with two of the authors. Assessing on-line medical education resources: A primer for acute care medical professionals and others Peter G Brindley ,  Leon Byker ,  Simon Carley , Brent Thoma https://doi.org/10.1177/1751143721999949

Our regular podcast round up from February 2021. Iain and Simon highlight the key learning points from this month on the St Emlyn’s blog and podcast. Topics discussed this month include tocilizumab in COVID19, TIA risk scores, new Emergency Care standards (targets) and TXA use in epistaxis. We also pay tribute to Dr Cliff Mann, former President of RCEM who sadly died this month.  Please remember t...

Our regular round up of the best of the blog and podcast from January 2021 with Iain and Simon. The St Emlyn's blog posts from January 2021 are discussed, including plenty about Coronavirus as well as other topics relevant to anyone interested in Emergency Medicine and evidence based care. 

Going into hospital as an emergency during the COVID-19 pandemic must be extremely scary for patients and their relatives. With no relatives allowed to visit and staff dressed in full PPE, the experience must be so much more unnerving than usual. Add to that the incredible worry about catching COVID-19 for those who don’t already have it; or the worry about what might happen for those who do. Will...

A vaccine update with Rick Body, Simon Carley, Pam Vallely, Paul Klapper and Charlie Reynard. Bringing RCEM, St Emlyn's and the University of Manchester together for the latest thoughts and wisdom on the vaccines that might get us out of this pandemic.   Moderna vaccine phase 3 trial - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022483 Oxford vaccine phase 2/3 - https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/jou...

A special festive edition of our round up podcast featuring six weeks of blog posts and plenty more besides. From all at St Emlyn's we hope you have a very happy festive season and we cannot wait to talk to you again in 2021. Take care, Simon and all the team

Rick leads the FALCON and CONDOR studies that are currently evaluating COVID-19 studies in the UK. Nobody knows more about how we can practically use COVID-19 testing than Rick and in this podcast he takes us through what is available and how we might use it in the future.  A great listen and lots to learn. 

A bumper edition of the podcast where Iain and Simon discuss TXA (twice), antibiotics in appendicits , VTE , Blood products in trauma , use of ultrasound in cardiac arrest and plasma in traumatic brain injury . Oh, and COVID19 (but not for long)... An evidence based cornucopia of aural pleasure. Please like and subscribe (as all podcasters seem to say). Take care, Iain

In this special edition of the podcast, Liz Crowe discusses with Iain how we can find contentment, despite the relentless nature of COVID19 and the impending second wave. She gives practical, realistic advice that everyone can consider and encourages us all to be kind to ourselves in these strange and difficult times. 

Welcome to our audio round up of everything on the blog during September. It's been a relatively quiet on the blog post this month, but we chat through not only blogposts on the REMAP-CAP trial , TXA in Head Injury and the ISARIC COVID Risk prediction tool , but also the situation in the North of England and the recent RCEM Virtual Conference . The numbers of Lesson Plans available continue to gro...

Interview with Ian Roberts on the pharmacokinetic trial of intramuscular tranexamic acid.   Blog link here

Welcome to our audio round up of everything on the blog during August.  As the world continues to be in the grips of the Coronavirus pandemic there have been more papers looking at all aspects of this disease. Simon reviewed the latest paper on Hydroxychloroquine and Charlie collated some of the top papers covering aspects from aerosol spread and use of CPAP to the effect on vulnerable groups and...

Our own version of Buy One Get One Free* this month, where you get a round up of two months of blog content.   Coronavirus continues to dominate the medical (and non-medical) headlines, and we discuss the two major results from the RECOVERY trial published recently, one positive and one not so (depending on who you talk to....). Simon also catches up with Roberto Cosentini , who you'll remember fr...

We are delighted to introduce you to the " St Emlyn's Lesson Plans ", which we hope will help structure some of your education sessions over coming months (and years). Each lesson plan starts with a descrete learning outcome, to set the scene, as well as details of the RCEM curriculum item(s) that will be covered. The first tasks are aimed at aquiring some background knowledge and can either be do...

St Emlyn's three professors, Carley, Body and Horner* critically appraise the Press Release regarding Dexamethasone in the treatment of COVID-19. What does this mean for the future of Evidence Based Medicine? Can we really start using a medication when the trial hasn't been peer reviewed and the full dataset not released?  The blog post by Josh Farkas, that is mentioned in the podcast, is here . *...

Lots to chat about on the podcast this month, and not just COVID! There's been blog posts about clots , troponin and even telly , as well as the Journal Club series.   Keep a look out for the new St Emlyn's Lesson Plans that we hope will help usher in a new era of medical education in a socially distanced world.    If you would like to donate to the fund in the memory Adel Aziz you can find the li...

Welcome to our seventh webinar and journal club reviewing recent research and featuring COVID-19 updates, hosted by the University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with St Emlyn's.   The live event took place on Tuesday 26th May. Today's panel will be hosted by  Rick Body  The panel includes  Prof Paul Klapper  (Professor of Clinica...