TO VIEW PLEASE DOWNLOAD The CT scan has become central in the management of abdominal conditions, especially emergencies. But how do you interpret a CT when theres no radiologist around or you can't wait for the report? Pete Thurley tells Jon Lund the secrets of radiology and gives a structure to looking at CTs so that you never miss anything again. Essential viewing for all for both exams and real life! Pete Thurley is a Consultant Radiologist at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK and Jon Lund is Cli...
Nov 23, 2015•25 min
You're called by the Emergency Department saying that someone has crashed a car with a full bladder and they are worried about injury to the bladder and kidney. They are unstable. Do you know what to do? Well, if you have listened to this podcast by Andrew Deytrikh and Simon Williams you will know how to safely manage all kinds of urological trauma. Penetrating and blunt trauma to bladder and kidney are covered, with classic history, presenting features, investigations to be performed, when to o...
Nov 07, 2015•14 min
Greg McMahon shows James Blackwell how to find and examine the aorta and peripheral pulses by hand and using the Doppler probe. Have a look at our podcast on ABPI as well and you'll pass that OSCE station with no problem at all! Greg McMahon is a consultant vascular surgeon and James Blackwell is a research fellow in Surgery at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK
Oct 17, 2015•7 min
If you think that relative risk is worrying that Uncle Brian will start dancing at the wedding, then you need to watch this podcast by Rob Radcliffe. Rob explains and helps you define, recognise and avoid bias in trials and explains what relative risk and odds ratio are, and the difference between them. Essential listening if you want to be able to read and interpret others research, or design your own. Also very useful for those pesky exams and academic stations in selection processes. Rob Radl...
Oct 06, 2015•15 min
Want to have a career as a clinical academic? Want to be a professor one day? Listen to this podcast and find out how to be successful. Keaton Jones talks to Dr Denise Best about the background to integrated clinical academic careers in the UK and pathway for clinical academic training from the academic foundation programme onwards. Application and progression from academic foundation programme (AFP), through the academic clinical fellowship (ACF) programme and academic clinical lecturer program...
Sep 24, 2015•24 min
In Part 1 Dr Damian Kelly discussed definitions and diagnosis of angina and in part 2 he tells us what treatments can be offered, from rehabilitation and medical treatments, through angioplasty and stenting to the role of cardiac surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting. The implications of a diagnosis of angina on the lifestyle and work of a patient are also discussed. Topics in the podcast are mapped to the clinical phase 3 (final) objectives of the University of Nottingham, UK Damian Kelly...
Sep 24, 2015•18 min
Angina is a very common condition that all doctors will come across in their normal working day. In this podcast Dr Damian Kelly tells Jon Lund: 1. how to define angina what the terms stable and unstable angina mean and the implications of each 3. a description of the typical history of angina about underlying causes, risk factors and relevant investigations for angina 4. about the role of a rapid access chest pain clinic Objectives are mapped to the University of Nottingham, UK clinical phase 3...
Sep 24, 2015•15 min
ABPI is not a credit card interest rate, but just about the most important measurement you can make in vascular surgery.Find out what it is, what it means, who not to do it on, and a video on how to perform it quickly and efficiently using our point of view technique (like you're really there!) with James Blackwell (research fellow in surgery) and Greg McMahon (consultant in Vascular Surgery, Royal Derby Hospital, UK). This comes up in OSCEs a lot and so is essential knowledge for exams, both un...
Sep 18, 2015•12 min
So, you've just started as an F1. This is the time to start thinking about how to get that core training job. Naomi Laskar, James Blackwell and Jon Lund give you top tips and a recipe for how to succeed in developing your CV to make you successful when applying for core training. There's advice for any speciality with some specific advice for surgical core interviews for how to get the most out of audit, research, teaching, leadership, presentations, publications, experience and much more. You n...
Sep 11, 2015•39 min
Moving from being a medical student to being a doctor is probably the biggest change you'll ever have in your professional life. In many surveys most new doctors say that they weren't prepared for what starting as a real doctor entailed. But DON'T PANIC - help is at hand from Naomi Laskar and friends Reena Shaunak and David Restall, who are all just about to finish their first year as foundation year 1 doctors (interns). With tips on keeping an up to date job list, running an efficient ward roun...
Aug 02, 2015•28 min
Sliding or rolling? That is the question! Or at least one of the questions you will need to know the answer to when you encounter a hiatus hernia. Whatever branch of medicine or surgery you go into you will need to know about this increasingly common condition. Eleanor Rudge discusses anatomy, types of hernia, physiology, presentation, investigation and treatment of hiatal hernia with Eric Sheu. Eleanor Rudge is a research fellow in surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and University of Harva...
Aug 01, 2015•7 min
Nissen's fundoplication is probably the most common procedure used to treat gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD or GERD, depending where you live and how you feel about a dipthong). In this video Keaton Jones explains the indications, anatomy, technique and complications of this operation and you can watch the operation being performed by Mr Shaun Appleton, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at Buckinghamshire Healthcare, UK. Watch this with our other podcast, All you need to know about antireflux ...
Jul 30, 2015•14 sec
If you want to know what bone is: watch this! An essential guide to bone, its formation, remodelling and maintenance is given by Susan Anderson in this microscopic tour of the substance that holds us up and will be here long after the rest of us is gone. Underlying mechanisms are discussed as is the pathogenesis at a cellular level of osteoporosis, Paget's Disease and osteogenesis imperfecta. Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham.
Jul 20, 2015•9 min
Download this for Susan Anderson to show you hyaline cartilage, and you can also find out why 18th century sailors had wobbly teeth and wounds which didn't heal well...
Jul 17, 2015•4 min
Susan Anderson (Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Nottingham) takes you on a microscopic tour of the structure of bone with some of the most beautiful histological images in the series yet. See the structure of bone, haversian canals, osteons, lamellae and learn how osteocytes communicate information about stresses in the bone and how to grow and maintain bone. Also, if you're stuck for naming your baby, you can decide whether Clopton is a nice name for a boy!
Jul 17, 2015•4 min
"Doctor!" the nurse shouts, "the patient admitted earlier with abdominal pain has a blood sugar of 36! He doesn't look very well! What shall I do?!" Fortunately, you had listened to this podcast by Naomi Laskar and Roger Stanworth about recognising and dealing with diabetic emergencies on the surgical ward, and you knew exactly what was going on and what to do! This podcast covers diabetic ketoacidosis (not infrequently presenting to surgery as abdominal pain as the main symptom), the superbly n...
Jul 14, 2015•8 min
Many patients who we operate on have diabetes as well. Complications are more common in patients with diabetes and we need to know how to look after their blood sugar, where to put them on the operating list, how to deal with the nil by mouth periods, how to prescribe insulin and when and special precautions which we need to take when arranging imaging for these patients. Naomi Laskar talks to Roger Stanworth about how to look after a patient with diabetes on a surgical ward. Essential listening...
Jul 14, 2015•9 min
Diabetes is a common and growing co-morbidity in whatever branch of medicine you go in to. In this audio podcast, Roger Stanworth talks to Naomi Laskar about this condition. Types of diabetes and their aetiology and presentation are covered as well as HbA1c, WHO recommendations, different management plans for each type of diabetes, drugs and their contraindications are also covered. Roger Stanworth is a consultant diabetologist and Naomi Laskar is a foundation doctor, both at the Royal Derby Hos...
Jul 13, 2015•12 min
"Doctor - what do you want to do with the patient with abdominal trauma now? Laparotomy? CT??" you are asked by the Emergency Room staff. You strike a wise pose, remember that you have listened to Andrew Deytrikh talk to Adam Brooks about abdominal trauma in this podcast, and say "Physiology drives decision making in major trauma" and then do the right thing for the patient. This podcast discusses all aspects of blunt and penetrating abdominal trauma beyond immediate ATLS. Patterns of injury, in...
Jul 06, 2015•15 min
Can you tell the difference between a monocyte and a basophil? Would you know what an eosinophil looked like if it came up to you and introduced itself? Where do platelets come from? If I have worms, what cells are responsible for killing them? All this and much more answered as Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of blood on a microscopic scale, teaching you how to identify red cells, granulocytes, lymphocytes, platelets, monocytes, basophils, eosinophils and neutrophil polymorphs and going thro...
Jun 22, 2015•7 min
What's in the walls of your blood vessels? How are arteries different from veins? What is a capillary? All these questions and more and some clinical applications are explained by showing what these structures look like down the microscope in this really useful podcast from Dr Susan Anderson, Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK
Jun 18, 2015•8 min
"You, boy/girl! Tell me about this disease!" the consultant shouts at you in the middle of a ward round. Your eyes widen, your heart thumps, everyone looks at you, you break out into a cold sweat. You can't think of what to say! If only you'd watched this podcast on how to structure facts about any disease in a logical and easy to remember way. Exasperated the consultant moves onto your colleague who has watched this podcast, and gives a perfect answer using the In A Surgeon's Gown A Physician M...
Jun 18, 2015•12 min
The trachea, or windpipe in lay language, is a large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchi and allowing air to pass to and from the lungs. Ideal for medical students and surgeons in training, Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of the histology of this tube, including revealing its ciliated pseudo stratified mucous membrane and the C-shaped hyaline cartilages which keep the trachea open. Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at ...
Jun 15, 2015•5 min
What is the Latin word for eyelash and why is this relevant to the histology of the lung? To find out you need to watch this video podcast of the histology of the lung with Susan Anderson. As well as a refresher in Latin, also covered are structure of the airways, changes in the mucous membrane cell types, alveoli, surfactant, bronchodilators and why you hear crackles when you listen to the chest of someone with fibrosing alveolitis. Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the U...
Jun 12, 2015•8 min
Susan Anderson takes you through the differences between the histology of the oesophagus and the stomach. Cell types and function and Barrett's oesophagus are discussed. Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Jun 11, 2015•4 min
You need to know what normal looks like before you can recognise what is abnormal. Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of the mucosa of the stomach and duodenum in this video podcast. You'll be able to see the different structures in the mucosa, glands and those villi which become atrophic in coeliac disease. A much more interesting way to learn about histology than looking in a textbook and quicker than sitting in a lecture. Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University o...
Jun 10, 2015•5 min
Knowing the histology and embryology of the anorectal junction helps you to understand why you should band piles above the dentate line, why cancers in the region have different tissues of origin and spread to different lymph nodes. In this video podcast Susan Anderson takes you though important histological features of the large bowel and contrasts them with the different features of the anal canal. Clinical application of these features is also described Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professo...
Jun 10, 2015•4 min
Part 1 of this podcast left you on the edges of your seats wondering about complications and long term follow up. In part 2 you can find out about what can go wrong after bariatric surgery and what to do about it from Eleanor Rudge and Ali Tavakkoli. Also, how to look after morbidly obese patients in the long term after surgery is discussed. Eleanor Rudge is a Speciality Registrar in the East of England and Surgical Research Fellow at Harvard and Dr Ali Tavakkoli is a Bariatric Consultant Surgeo...
May 24, 2015•7 min
Morbid obesity is a significant problem for healthcare and public health around the world. Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, is increasingly used to help people who cannot lose weight in other ways and who's excess weight is causing other medical problems. In this audio podcast, mapped to ISCP learning objectives, Eleanor Rudge talks to Ali Tavakkoli about surgical treatment, multidisciplinary team assessment and the importance of psychological and dietetic assessment and indications an...
May 23, 2015•14 min
Penetrating wounds to the chest can be immediately life threatening, requiring quick decision making and the right intervention. Everyone in the emergency department will be looking at you as the surgeon on the scene. Do you know what to do and why you'd be doing it? In this audio podcast Andrew Deytrikh talks about the management of penetrating chest trauma with Adam Brooks. Mapped to ISCP objectives, differentiation between haemo and pneumothorax, safe chest drain insertion, needle pericardioc...
Apr 25, 2015•17 min
