Paediatric palliative care consultant Timothy Warlow discusses caring for children with life-limiting conditions in the emergency department. Recorded at PREMIER 2024, the podcast explores listening to families, using care plans and communicating honestly without making assumptions about a child's quality of life.
Could intranasal ketorolac offer an alternative to intravenous analgesia for renal colic? This appraisal examines a randomised trial comparing the two routes, its pain outcomes and methodological limitations, including how the choice of comparator affects its relevance to UK practice.
The June 2024 podcast round-up discusses nebulised ketamine, intubation risks, defibrillation strategies and preoxygenation, including the PREOXI trial. It also considers how to give better presentations and how research findings translate into practice when equipment and local routines differ.
Emergency Department Management
Could an emergency department visit be an opportunity to help someone stop smoking? This appraisal examines the COSTED randomised trial of brief advice, an e-cigarette starter kit and referral, alongside its quit-rate findings and the staffing and resources needed to offer the intervention.
When is the right moment to perform a high-stakes emergency procedure? This reflection uses the Goldilocks analogy to explore the harm of acting too early or too late, the uncertainty between those extremes and how training and peer review might develop judgement.
Listen to the podcast about the management of button battery ingestion recorded live at the Premier Conference 2024.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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