Podcast

Iain and Simon review May 2020 on St Emlyn's, including COVID-19 research discussions and venous thromboembolism resources. The written episode notes also connect global health, race and inequality with reflections on privilege and the perspectives emergency clinicians bring to their work.

A roundup of St Emlyn's in April 2020, including the early RCEM journal club webinars and other COVID-19 resources. The episode notes also point to exercise and nutrition, visual communication, a gardening-related skin condition and the site's curriculum-based learning pages.

An April 2020 podcast and accompanying notes following patients with COVID-19 from the emergency department into critical care. Dan Horner discusses respiratory support, proning, ventilation physiology and equipment problems, alongside the practical and emotional pressures of working in intensive care during the first wave.

An extended April 2020 COVID-19 journal club collection, combining the first webinar with ten additional paper reviews. Topics include children, antibody testing, intensive care outcomes, prediction models and thrombosis, with attention to bias, small samples and the limits of early observations.

John Rogers and Nathan Lewis discuss what healthcare workers might learn from sport and exercise medicine about sleep, stress, exercise and nutrition. Recorded during the first COVID-19 wave, the conversation draws on athlete research while acknowledging the limits of applying it to pandemic staff health.

In a family edition of the podcast recorded on 22 March 2020, Iain Beardsell answers his children's questions about coronavirus. A snapshot of the uncertainties families faced at the start of the pandemic, with advice reflecting that recording date.