Podcast From St Mungo's

Medical researcher and scientific author, Estrelita van Rensburg, explains how bad science and misinformation leads us down the road to insulin-resistance, the precursor of illness and chronic disease. Her book will shake the foundations of standard nutritional advice and demonstrate how this leads to lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, dementia and c

Climate change is a risk multiplier for disasters. Disasters cause multi billion dollars worth of damage worldwide therefore, prevention should be the aim. Paradigm shift from disaster response to disaster risk reduction, hazard to community resilience. Disasters have immediate, short term and long term impacts on health and clinical practice.

Superior Vena Cava syndrome (SVC) may be the first presentation of a cancer and therefore not suspected. The most common symptoms are facial edema, distended neck and/or chest veins, cough and dyspnea. Acute life-threatening symptoms such as airway obstruction from laryngeal edema, cerebral edema, hypotension and coma are possible, but fortunately rare. Over 60% of SVC syndromes ar

Calcium channel blockers and beta blockers are potentially devastating ingestions. This is a targeted review of the mechanisms behind toxicity and the rationale behind various management options available during resuscitation.

Neutropenic fever is an oncologic emergency that carries high morbidity and mortality and is a common condition seen in the Emergency Department. This lecture provides a concise and condensed overview of the definitions, etiology, workup, and up to date treatment strategies to manage neutropenic fever. Ultimately, the aim of this lecture is to make practitioners feel more comfortab

Right heart failure is often misunderstood and underappreciated. It is more common than we think and presents in a number of common conditions such as sepsis. Using anatomic principles, this talk demystifies RV Failure and applies some basic principles to guide practice.

Skin infections are a common presenting complaint to the emergency department. This talk provides an overview of animal bites, other infected skin infections, abccesses and necrotising facsciitis.

Asthma management is a critical skill for ED clinicians. Rapid assessment and application of appropriate interventions can quickly improve patient status. The key is in understanding where on the spectrum of disease the patient lies and, whatinterventions are appropriate based on disease severity. In this talk, we will review the presentation of mild, moderate and severe asthma and

A review of key literature and best practice in trauma management, with tips and pearls from Chris Colwell.

Finbar McGrady is a Northern Irish GP, Skin Specialist, international triathlon champion with a passion for wellness. In this episode we discuss mind, body and spirit and the need to address each of these to achieve effective and lasting contentment.