Emergency Medicine

The August 2018 podcast roundup revisits learning from EMSA, clinical apps, biotin interference with troponin testing and the CESR route. Its written guide also links a review of intravenous fluids in critical illness and a discussion of moral injury in emergency and prehospital care.

Simon Carley sets out five approaches to resuscitation practice that require no new equipment: preparation with the Zero Point Survey, regular team updates, separating immediate care from strategic thinking, peer observation and hot debriefs. This St Emlyn’s Live 2018 talk focuses on how teams work together.

In the third part of his personal account of PTSD, Rusty Carroll describes his experience of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy. He reflects on waiting for treatment, the emotional demands of therapy and the changes that helped him rebuild his wellbeing.

This October 2018 announcement shares the programme for St Emlyn’s Live and the Teaching CoOp courses in Manchester. It also records the arrangements for streaming the conference through the St Emlyn’s YouTube channel.

Simon Carley reviews the 2018 EMS Gathering in Cork in a podcast and accompanying conference report. Highlights include family presence during resuscitation, patients’ stories, outdoor learning and extrication simulation, alongside reflections on what emergency services can learn from one another.

What happens when a resuscitation conference puts multidisciplinary learning and simulation at its centre? This report from the inaugural ResusTO in 2018 explores team behaviours, systems design, deliberate practice and hands-on workshops, with reflections on how small changes might strengthen resuscitation performance.