PHEMCAST

The recent resurgence in this method of suicide has put emergency responders at a significant increase of serious injury and death. This podcast discussed the current most frequent methods of attempted and successful inhalational suicide  – keep safe.     There are a multitude of professional and advisory websites out there. We are keen not … Continue reading Episode 8: Chemical Suicide

We hope you enjoyed our sepsis podcast. It is obviously a huge topic and there is lots of information to cover; a couple of other recently released podcasts are available which are produced with the Emergency Medicine community in mind, but will no doubt expand your knowledge.   St Emlyns Induction podcast on Sepsis. March … Continue reading Episode 7: Sepsis

To provide a bit of balance following our earlier hyperoxia podcast, this episode we are discussing circumstances when we want to deliver extra oxygen to patients and ways to do this effectively, including an interview with Sydney HEMS Consultant Yash Wilmalasena on apnoeic oxygenation. Hope you find it useful!   Some of the stuff we … Continue reading Episode 6: Oxygenation

    Welcome to PHEMCAST episode 5: Amputation One of the things we never want to have to do, but need to be prepared for. Have a listen, consider your kit, your top-cover arrangements, and when and how you may need to get this done. This podcast covers, which patients to consider, how to do … Continue reading Episode 5: Amputation

We hope you enjoyed this PHEMCast. Please feedback your comments via the blog, twitter or email us on PHEMCAST@gmail.com. The NARU video we mention in the podcast can be accessed here: http://naru.org.uk/videos/ior-nhs/ And the paper we discuss is: Chilcott RP. Managing mass casualties and decontamination. Environmental International. 2014; 72: 37-45. This is the Step 1,2,3 … Continue reading Episode 4: Chemical incidents

  Hello and welcome to our next episode – we hope you enjoy it. This episode concentrates on hyperoxia – the delivery of lots (often too much) oxygen and the harms it may cause our patients. We both had colds – many apologies for the blocked noses and many sniffs! We hope you find it … Continue reading Episode 3: Hyperoxia

Sorry for the slight delay releasing our “October” podcast – but here it is (note how it is cunningly labelled Episode 2)! This month we are reviewing the evidence for the pelvic binder and discussing scenarios in which it should (and should not) be used. As always, please get in touch with questions and comments, … Continue reading Episode 2: The Pelvic Binder

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Here it is – our very first podcast, and guess what – it is on supraglottic airways! This first episode reviews the history of the laryngeal mask airway and we discuss the relative benefits and risks of supraglottic airway devices. We’ve interviewed Dr Rob Moss, author of the Faculty of Prehospital Care (FPHC) Consensus Guidelines … Continue reading Podcast: September 2015: The LMA