The Resus Room

Feb 28 2025 253 ep. 36 mins 6.5k
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Emergency Medicine podcasts based on evidence based medicine focussed on practice in and around the resus room.

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March 2025; papers of the month

Feb 28 2025 34 mins  
Welcome back to March 2025's papers podcast! We start off this month with a fascinating paper looking at the experiences of relatives who were witness to unsuccessful resuscitation. We often talk on the podcast about the impact of medical or technical interventions, but this paper offer us an opportunity to consider the huge impact of our non-technical elements of practice and refl

Maternal Arrest; Roadside to Resus

Feb 11 2025 65 mins  
Cardiac Arrest in pregnancy affects around 1: 12-30,000 women in the developed world. As you’d expect the risk of death for mother and child is extremely high, but some causes of arrest are reversible and we can make a real impact with our care and treatment of these cases Now it goes without saying that these are some of the most emotive, complex and technically challenging Resu

February 2025; papers of the month

Jan 31 2025 28 mins  
Welcome back to February 2025's papers podcast! This month we're exploring papers on seizure management, oxygen strategies in trauma, along with transfusion strategies in patients with traumatic brain injuries. First up we look at at a paper exploring the potential benefit of adding ketamine into the strategy for treating patients with status epilepticus. Does it help to more relia

Bronchiolitis; Roadside to Resus

Jan 14 2025 52 mins  
Welcome back to the first Roadside to Resus episode for 2025!! In this episode, we’re diving into a seasonally appropriate, and really paediatric common presentation for anyone involved in emergency care….Bronchiolitis. Now although it’s one of the most common respiratory illnesses affecting kids, bronchiolitis can easily cause confusion and concern around the severity of il

January 2025; papers of the month

Dec 31 2024 34 mins  
Happy New Year!!! We hope you've had some time off over the festive period and now we're back to kick start the new year with three more great papers. Syncope is common presentation to the Emergency Department, accounting for 1% of presentations. Without a clear precipitant of the event it can be challenging to identify those patients who have a higher risk of associated morbidity

Decision Making, Prioritisation, Leadership & EBM; 50 Shades of Critical Care Roadside to Resus

Dec 10 2024 59 mins  
This is an episode we've been wanting to cover for a long time now! In it we explore the challenges in entering and developing in prehospital critical care, which translate into pretty much developing in any new role both in and out of health care. We cover some pretty personally challenging experiences and the strategies that both clinicians new to prehospital critical care may fi

December 2024; papers of the month

Nov 30 2024 32 mins  
A really strong line up of papers to bring this year's evidence round up to a close! First up we take a look at a paper evaluating the utility of pulse oximetry (along with several other diagnostic tests) in identifying vascular injury following trauma, a really interesting look at an approach we didn't know much about. Next up we run through PARAMEDIC-3, a huge RCT looking at the

Extrication Consensus Statement FPHC; Roadside to Resus

Nov 14 2024 43 mins  
Motor vehicle collisions or road traffic collisions are a massive problem worldwide. Data from the World Health Organisation reports that there are around 1.2 million deaths every year and this is the leading cause of death internationally for children and young adults aged 5-29 years. In the UK there are around 1,500 deaths annually and also around 60,000 patients with significan

November 2024; papers of the month

Oct 31 2024 34 mins  
Welcome back to the podcast and to November's Papers of the Month! We start off looking at the rate of pneumothoraces in patients following ROSC after a medical cardiac arrest. What is the incidence? Are there any risk factors? And how might this affect our index of suspicion and imaging practice? We've spoken before about how difficult vertigo can be as a presentation to the Emerg

Adrenal Crisis; Roadside to Resus

Oct 14 2024 54 mins  
In this episode we’re going to be running through adrenal presentations; both Adrenal insufficiency and Adrenal Crisis. There are some parts of these that aren’t completely understood and a lack of a universal definition of Adrenal Crisis, but both insufficiency and a crisis are similar problems at different points on a spectrum and solid understanding of the endocrinology and