Tracheostomy Emergencies can be high-stress situations, that require time-critical intervention, that’s why this month we're speaking to an expert and founder of the National Tracheostomy Safety Project Dr Brendan Mcgrath.
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This month’s episode is very much not a how-to PHEA podcast. This is designed to give a bit of awareness to what’s happening if you’re part of one and how you can support the wider team if you find yourself looking after a patient receiving an anaesthetic.
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Frailty is a term we commonly encounter in urgent and emergency care, but can you actually define it? Have you been taught to use frailty scores, and do you know what they're for?
This month we've partnered with the fantastic MDTea podcast to look at the subject.
As always, find the article at www.generalbroadcast.org.uk
and check out the other fantastic resources from the MDTea at: thehearingaidpodcasts.org.uk/mdtea-podcast/
Silver trauma is the term that is most commonly used to describe trauma in older patients. It is often used to refer to major trauma in this patient group and rates of major trauma in the over 65s are rising.
This month we're looking at the physiological changes that occur with ageing and trying to understand how these impact our older patients who suffer trauma.
This is the second episode in a two-part series on COPD.
In this episode, we look at the differential diagnosis to consider to a simple exacerbation, the ambulance management as well as recent changes to national paramedic guidelines, and the management options
COPD is a terminal condition believed to affect as much as 4% of the UK populace. These patients often present to ambulance crews with an exacerbation in symptoms.
In this episode, we look at the pathophysiology of COPD, causes and diagnosis as well as the assessment of acute shortness of breath in these patients.
Discharging a patient is one of the riskier areas of practice for paramedics and ambulance clinicians, so it is essential that we appropriately safety net our patients and do this well, to protect them and ourselves. In This months podcast we look at how we can make discharging out patients safer.
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This week we’re looking at feedback to students, both how to give on shift feedback. How to give “negative” feedback and how to manage the dreaded situation for every mentor, a failing student.
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This month we’re examining mentorship, we’re looking at what things you can do to get you and your new student off to a good start and sharing some of our experiences of being both mentors and mentees.
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In this episode we discuss to assess the scenes of Road Traffic Collisions, how car safety features work and how thinking about the injury experience during a collision can support our practice and care for injured patients.
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In this episode we discuss to assess the scenes of Road Traffic Collisions, how car safety features work and how thinking about the injury experience during a collision can support our practice and care for injured patients.
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Every year in England and wales 1.4 million people attend A+E with a head injury.
Ultimately, 90% of people end up being diagnosed with a minor head injury and are discharged.
This week we’re tackling the assessment of Adult head injuries, we’ll go through some red flags to be aware of as well as how to appropriately safety net our patients.
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In this episode we discuss logical fallacies and how they can lead to errors in clinical judgement, as well as some times in our practice we have displayed them and what if anything we can do to over come them.
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Starting life with the responsibility and pressure that comes with registration is always nerve wracking and we remember it well. So we've compiled some of the bits of advice we wish we could have given ourselves before we registered.
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In this episode we are going to be covering the assessment of Transient Loss of Conciousness (T-LOC) and discussing some of the differentials that could be responsible, from the easily discharged to the potentially life threatening
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In this second of a 2 part series we discuss; the managment of the peri-arrest patient, management of a hypothermic cardiac arrest, the modifications to standard ALS therapy, how we can best warm patients pre-hospitaly, what our priorities are in managing these patients, in hospital treatments, and finally we’re going to discuss guidance around confirming deathing in hypothermia.
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In this episode we look at the pathophysiology behind hypothermia. We go through the stages of hypothermia from mild homeostatic changes to peri-arrest phenomena.
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This Episode focuses on Elderly fallers and our assessment as ambulance clinicians. We hope to dispel some myths, look at gold standard assessment and cover falls prevention.
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