#FOAMed

A 2014 podcast introduction on trauma team leadership and the challenge of moving patients from ED arrival to CT within 30 minutes. The post places that goal alongside UK trauma standards of the time and includes a trauma transfer checklist to support the discussion.

An early announcement of the St Emlyn’s podcast from 2014. The post introduces its initial focus on diagnosis, plans for clinical and management discussions, and contributions from the wider team, capturing the beginnings of the project alongside the blog.

How can the same treatment benefit sound dramatic or modest depending on how it is described? This 2014 podcast explores relative and absolute risk reduction, numbers needed to treat and harm, and the use of natural frequencies to explain benefits and harms to patients.

What happens when later research overturns an established medical practice? This 2014 journal club examines a decade of medical reversals reported in one major journal, considering publication bias, the limits of that sample and the need to question both new treatments and familiar clinical beliefs.

Louise Cullen introduces her SMACC Gold talk on how research is produced, analysed and reported. Reflecting on changes in her own approach to new evidence, she discusses the traps in interpreting published findings and the importance of critical appraisal before changing clinical practice.

How does disease prevalence change the meaning of a diagnostic test result? In this 2014 podcast, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley discuss residual risk, the consequences of missed diagnoses and over-investigation, and how shared decisions and clear return advice can help patients navigate uncertainty.