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![Urgent Bite 224 - Walking on your ankle injury](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
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Weight-bearing at the time of the injury and assessment forms part of the Ottawa ankle rules.
Chien B, Hofmann K, Ghorbanhoseini M, Zurakowski D, Rodriguez EK, Appleton P, Ellington JK, Kwon JY. Relationship of Self-Reported Ability to Weight-Bear Immediately After Injury as Predictor of Stability for Ankle Fractures. Foot Ankle Int. 2016 Sep;37(9):983-8. doi: 10.1177/1071100716648009. Epub 2016 May 9. PMID: 27162225.
Check out the original Ottawa ankle paper
Stiell IG, McDowell I, Nair RC, Aeta H, Greenberg G, McKnight RD, Ahuja J. Use of radiography in acute ankle injuries: physicians' attitudes and practice. CMAJ. 1992 Dec 1;147(11):1671-8. PMID: 1362372; PMCID: PMC1336591.
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![Urgent Bite 223 - Using smell to diagnose](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Urgent Bite 223 - Using smell to diagnose
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Smell can be used to diagnose.
Check out the paper mentioned
Trivedi DK, Sinclair E, Xu Y, Sarkar D, Walton-Doyle C, Liscio C, Banks P, Milne J, Silverdale M, Kunath T, Goodacre R, Barran P. Discovery of Volatile Biomarkers of Parkinson's Disease from Sebum. ACS Cent Sci. 2019 Apr 24;5(4):599-606. doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00879. Epub 2019 Mar 20.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31041379/
Check out the BBC interview with Joy Milne
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![Urgent Bite 222 - Antihistamines use in eczema](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Urgent Bite 222 - Antihistamines use in eczema
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Do antihistamines help with the itch of dermatitis?
Check out the paper mentioned
Nankervis H, Thomas KS, Delamere FM, Barbarot S, Rogers NK, Williams HC. Scoping systematic review of treatments for eczema. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2016 May. PMID: 27280278.
Check out the Dermnet NZ page.
Authors: Dr Amy Stanway, Department of Dermatology, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand, February 2004; Updated: Honorary Associate Professor Paul Jarrett, Dermatologist, Middlemore Hospital and Department of Medicine, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2021. Minor internal update May 2023.
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![Urgent Bite 221 - Overseas medication](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jul 05, 2024
Urgent Bite 221 - Overseas medication
Friday Jul 05, 2024
Friday Jul 05, 2024
When you need help with identifying medications from overseas visitors, you can always call your local pharmacist, or you could try this website.
Check out the webpage mentioned - https://www.resourcepharm.com/pharmacist/identification-of-foreign-medicines.html
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![Urgent Bite 220 - Helping in an emergency](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 28, 2024
Urgent Bite 220 - Helping in an emergency
Friday Jun 28, 2024
Friday Jun 28, 2024
As medical professionals, we must know our legal and moral obligations to help in case of emergency.
Check out the MCNZ page on helping in an emergency.
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![Urgent Bite 219 - Music to help you focus, sleep and relax](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Urgent Bite 219 - Music to help you focus, sleep and relax
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Certain music can help improve your concentration, help you relax and improve your sleep.
Check out https://www.brain.fm/
Check out their white paper.
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![Urgent Bite 218 - Thinking about cold and flu remedies](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Urgent Bite 218 - Thinking about cold and flu remedies
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Cold and flu remedies containing pseudoephedrine are now a class C drug in New Zealand and available from pharmacies.
Check out the prescriber update from June 2024.
Check out the Ministry of Health page.
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![Dr Tony Smith talks Double Sequential and Vector Change Defibrillation for resistant VF/VT](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3239308/plainpodcastLOGO_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Dr Tony Smith, Deputy Clinical Director at Hato Hone St John, tells us about Double Sequential and Vector Change Defibrillation for resistant VF/VT. These new techniques, not currently covered in our NZRC resus algorithms, are being utilised by all ambulance services in New Zealand for patients who do not get ROSC after three shocks.
Tony can be contacted for questions at - Tony.Smith@stjohn.org.nz
Check out the paper mentioned
Cheskes S, Verbeek PR, Drennan IR, McLeod SL, Turner L, Pinto R, Feldman M, Davis M, Vaillancourt C, Morrison LJ, Dorian P, Scales DC. Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation. N Engl J Med. 2022 Nov 24;387(21):1947-1956. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2207304. Epub 2022 Nov 6. PMID: 36342151.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207304
And the editorial - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2213562
Check out the Article from the Conversation - https://theconversation.com/a-new-emergency-procedure-for-cardiac-arrests-aims-to-save-more-lives-heres-how-it-works-221979
Check out the article from the NZMJ
Dicker B, Maessen S, Swain A, Garcia E, Smith T. Are two shocks better than one? Aotearoa New Zealand emergency medical services implement a new defibrillation strategy: implications for around nine patients per week. N Z Med J. 2024 Mar 22;137(1592):105-107. doi: 10.26635/6965.6429. PMID: 38513209.
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![Prof. Bruce Arroll talks anxiety, asthma, breathing techniques and the polyvagal theory](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3239308/plainpodcastLOGO_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
Professor Bruce Arroll talks to us about a practical technique that can help regulate breathing in people having panic attacks or during an asthma attack. The conversation then leads into discussing the Polyvagal Theory, physician wellness, and chronic pain.
Check out the Goodfellow unit resources.
The Beginners Guide to the Polyvagal Theory
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![Urgent Bite 217 - The ASIS avulsion](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3239308/GoodBiteLogo_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 24, 2024
Urgent Bite 217 - The ASIS avulsion
Friday May 24, 2024
Friday May 24, 2024
Remember to consider an ASIS avulsion in young athletes who experience pain and a pop around their hip when sprinting.
Check out the Orthobullets page
https://www.orthobullets.com/knee-and-sports/3091/anterior-superior-iliac-spine-asis-avulsion
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