Episodes
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Urgent Bite 22 - Choosing Wisely
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we take a quick look at the Choosing Wisely initiative.
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Friday Mar 15, 2019
Urgent Bite 21 - Ask an Emergency Specialist a Question
Friday Mar 15, 2019
Friday Mar 15, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at next week's podcast recording that is happening on stage at the Goodfellow Symposium. It will be an interview with Emergency Medicine Specialist and President elect of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, Dr John Bonning.
If you are coming to the Goodfellow, pop along to the RNZCUC stream at 1205 on Sunday 24th March and hear the discussion. Please feel free to ask a question and you can get to appear on the podcast! If you are not coming to the Goodfellow, please ask a question via email and we will try to get you an answer.
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Friday Mar 08, 2019
Urgent Bite 20 - Antibiotics for UTI in the elderly
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Welcome to this weeks Urgent Bite. Today we look at a recent open access paper in the BMJ that looked at the effect immediate antibiotics had on bloodstream infections and all cause mortality in the elderly with UTI, compared to no antibiotics or delayed antibiotics. It is worth reading.
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l525.long
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we ask the question - do you prescribe an antidepressant on the first visit to an Urgent Care?
An evidence based first consultation for depression: 9 Key messages - https://bjgp.org/content/68/669/200.long
Effective Management of Depression in Primary Care: a review of the literature - https://bjgpopen.org/content/1/2/BJGP-2016-0641
Many Thanks to Professor Bruce Arroll for sharing his story.
For lots of primary care relevant online learning resources check out the Goodfellow unit - https://www.goodfellowunit.org
Those of you with a keen eye on the diary will notice this was the last Friday of the Month. Due to the short Month we will be releasing Episode 7 next Friday - technically the 1st March I know, but we do live in the future here in NZ.
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Urgent Bite 18 - Using a Scribe to increase efficiency
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at a recent open access article in the BMJ that looked at using a scribe to increase throughput and doctors productivity in the Emergency Department. Could these be cost effective in Urgent Care? Would they help you be more efficient? Let us know your thoughts.
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l121
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Friday Feb 08, 2019
Urgent Bite 17 - The Pronator Fat Pad Sign
Friday Feb 08, 2019
Friday Feb 08, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at the Pronator Quadratus Fat Pad Sign - an indicator of possible wrist fracture that is worth looking for on a lateral wrist radiograph.
Skeletal Radiology Article
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00256-012-1451-0
St Vincent's University Hospital Radiology Department Webpage
http://www.svuhradiology.ie/case-study/pronator-quadratus-fat-pad-sign/
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Friday Feb 01, 2019
Urgent Bite 16 - Zopiclone
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at BPAC advice from October 2018 regarding the prescribing of Zopiclone and ask the question - Should we prescribe Zopiclone in Urgent Care?
https://bpac.org.nz/report/snippet/zopiclone.aspx
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Friday Jan 18, 2019
Urgent Bite 15 - Fracture Management for Primary care - Book Review
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today I review a book that I have used for a number of years to assist me in managing fractures.
This is a personal review based on my experiences using the book having purchased it myself. No incentive or correspondance has been received from the publishers or authors. This is a book I would recommend to my Urgent Care colleagues to aid in the management of the types of injuries we see in Urgent Care Clinics.
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Friday Jan 11, 2019
Urgent Bite 14 - The sting of the injection
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. How do you reduce the sting of a local anaesthetic injection?
Reducing Local Anaesthetic pain article
Principles of Office Anaesthesia article
Ice to reduce pain of injection article
Swearing article
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Friday Dec 14, 2018
Friday Dec 14, 2018
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at using gut instinct when safety netting your consultations. Many thanks to Professor Bruce Arroll for sharing his story.
Article from the European Journal of General Practice - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/13814788.2015.1092516
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Christmas Elves by Francesco D'Andrea
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