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 grow. We've had some great feedback following their use in induction. If tyou've not seen them yet, do ...
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 the effect on staff psychological health It's not all COVID though. Sepsis is a condition we all want...
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 from the very powerful podcast at the beginning of the pandemic. COVID isn't the only EBM circus in town...
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 done as part of the session, or beforehand. These utilise the vast "FOAMed" resources (including, but ...
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 . *Professor Simon Carley, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University and a C...
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 link here . We hope you're finding all of our output useful. Please do subscribe to the website (in the top...
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 Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynard (NIHR Clinical Research Fellow), Dr Anisa Jafar , Prof Pam Vallely (Profes...
Welcome to our sixth COVID-19 Journal Club Podcast. The panel was hosted by Rick Body and included Prof Paul Klapper (Professor of Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynard (NIHR Clinical Research Fellow), Dr Anisa Jafar , Prof Pam Vallely (Professor of Medical Virology), Prof Simon Carley and special guest Liz Crowe (Advanced Clinician Social Worker and PhD candidate in health staff wellbeing in Brisbane) to discuss four papers about COVID-19 infection. We were especially pleased to welcome Liz th...
Welcome to our fifth 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 12th May at 11.00am BST (10.00am GMT). The COVID-19 Journal Club Panel Today’s panel was hosted by Rick Body The panel includes Prof Paul Klapper (Professor of Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynard (NIHR Clinical Rese...
Over the last few years many of us in the UK have started to incorporate high-sensitivity troponin into the assessment of patients presenting with chest pain. We have seen these samples taken at ever shorter intervals, aiming to discharge low risk patients safely, sooner from the Emergency Department (ED). This has been driven in part by the "Four Hour Emergency Access Target" as well as increased crowding in overwhelmed EDs. In this podcast, internationally renowned researcher Prof Rick Body d...
Welcome to our fourth 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 tool place on Tuesday 5th May at 11.30am BST (10.30am GMT). The panel was again be hosted by Rick Body The panel includes Prof Paul Klapper (Professor of Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynard (NIHR Clinical Research Fellow), Dr Anisa Jafa...
It's been another busy month at St Emlyn's, with the publication of 15 blog posts and five podcasts, but there does seem to be an awful lot to talk about! Of course there have been multiple posts and podcasts about COVID-19, and you can fiind all of these on our special St Emlyn's page . Highlights have included the three RCEM/St Emlyn's Webinars which we are delighted to host in podcast form. It's not just been coronavirus though, we have also dipped out toes into exercise and nutrition , graph...
Welcome to our third 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 28th April at 11am BST (10am GMT). The panel was hosted by Rick Body The panel includes Prof Paul Klapper (Professor of Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynard (NIHR Clinical Research Fellow), Dr Dan Horner (RCEM Profes...
Welcome to our second webinar on recent research about COVID-19, hosted by the University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with St Emlyn’s. The panel was hosted by Rick Body. The panel includes Prof Paul Klapper (Professor of Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynard (NIHR Clinical Research Fellow), Prof Pam Vallely (Professor of Medical Virology), Dr Anisa Jafar (Academic Clinical Lecturer), Dr Casey Parker and Prof Simon Carley (yo...
In this podcast, Dan and Iain talk about the clinical journey of a COVID-19 patient, beyond the ED, with insights from the critical care unit. There are some concepts here that we don’t have time to do full justice to in the podcast, so there is a comprehensive set of "show notes" and all the references at www.stemlynsblog.org/covid-19-and-critical-care
Professor Rick Body is joined by Prof Paul Klapper (Professor of Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynolds (NIHR Clinical Research Fellow), Prof Pam Vallely (Professor of Medical Virology), Dr Anisa Jafar (Academic Clinical Lecturer) and Prof Simon Carley (you know him...) to discuss six papers about COVID-19 infection. 03:10 - Paper 1 – Guan et al. Clinical characteristics of Coronavirus disease 2019 in China. NEJM Feb 28 2020 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032 16:54 Paper 2 – Zo...
Iain and Simon discuss Covid19 and more in this review of the best of the blog from March 2020.
Simon interviews Dr John Rogers and Dr Nathan Lewis on respiratory infection prevention. John a Sports and Exercise Medicine Consultant in Manchester. He is also Chief Medical Officer for British Triathlon and Visiting Professor in Sport & Exercise Medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University. Nathan is lead performance nutrition scientist at the English Institute of Sport and at ORRECO. These two academics take us through how sports science might be able to support our wellbeing during th...
The world is consumed by the Coronavirus pandemic, but how do we look after ourselves? Liz and Iain discuss some strategies to stay well over the coming weeks and months. Recorded on 25th March 2020.
Simon chats to Sarah Thornton, consultant anaesthetist, intensivist and head of the NW school of anaesthesia on preparing to work in a critical care unit during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Iain and Simon chat about the current Corona pandemic and the blog in Feb 2020. Iain remains positive, but Simon thinks the glass is half full. Time will tell who is right (though in truth there is a lot of common ground). S
Dr Roberto Cosentini is an old friend of St Emlyn's who works in Bergamo, in Northern Italy. He is right at the heart of the recent Covid19 outbreak. He kindly found an hour to record a podcast with us on his experiences. There are so many essential lessons in this podcast. Please share with clinical and non-clinical colleagues, as we need to plan NOW. Roberto is quite clear that if we don't train and get plans into place before the wave of cases hit us then both ourselves and our patients will ...
Iain is back on the podcast with Simon to talk through the best of the blog from January 2020.
Our regular round up of the best of the blog from December 2019. Published a little late, largely because of Coronavirus issues and general business.
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