Writing in April 2020, Simon Carley argues for evidence-based medicine despite the pressure to try unproven COVID-19 treatments. He examines the weaknesses of uncontrolled reports and explains how coordinated UK research, including RECOVERY, offered a route to more reliable answers.
How can graphics help staff absorb unfamiliar procedures during a crisis? Nick Smith explains visual communication and cognitive load, sharing a clinical procedures guide, icons and practical design ideas developed for redeployed and newly qualified doctors during the first COVID-19 wave.
A roundup of St Emlyn's in March 2020, including Roberto Cosentini's experience in northern Italy and Liz Crowe's discussion of pandemic fear and anxiety. The episode notes also cover critical care preparation, lung ultrasound, immediate care, vasopressin in haemorrhagic shock and patient flow.
A collection assembled in April 2020 for doctors redeployed into emergency medicine during COVID-19. It brings together RCEM and St Emlyn's induction resources, pandemic material and open-access books to support clinicians entering the ED for the first time or returning after a gap.
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.
An April 2020 teaching model for thinking about infection control around patients with suspected COVID-19. Thomas Bannister and Simon Carley use a ‘bubble’ analogy to discuss equipment, communication, patient transfers and the challenge of changing familiar clinical habits during the first wave.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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